disabled = true can be set dynamically on <style>. Why not statically?

To disable <style> blocks, all browsers allow setting document.styleSheets[x].disabled = true. However, only IE allows this pro开发者_开发技巧perty to be set on the tag itself, <style disabled="true">. Is there a workaround for this in other browsers? It seems odd that something done dynamically can't also be done statically.

The style element has no valid attribute named disabled. From the HTML spec:

<!ELEMENT STYLE - - %StyleSheet        -- style info -->
<!ATTLIST STYLE
  %i18n;                               -- lang, dir, for use with title --
  type        %ContentType;  #REQUIRED -- content type of style language --
  media       %MediaDesc;    #IMPLIED  -- designed for use with these media --
  title       %Text;         #IMPLIED  -- advisory title --
  >

However, the HTMLStyleElement DOM interface does have such a property. From the DOM spec:

interface HTMLStyleElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute boolean         disabled;
           attribute DOMString       media;
           attribute DOMString       type;
};

Don't confuse an HTML element with its counterpart in the DOM. It is not "odd that something done dynamically can't also be done statically." The HTML and DOM specs were created to solve different problems. HTML is a markup language. The DOM is a convention for representing and interacting with the objects in a document.

Extending on the media answer by @lampyridae, you can negate a media selector using not. To disable a style tag statically, I use media="not all", which works for me in Chrome 79.

The media attribute can be set both in the HTML and by Javascript. The idea is to set the media attribute so that the style tag does not apply to any device in order to disable it.

I think setting it to something invalid like media="bogus" or media="none" is risky since the browser may decide to simply ignore the predicate and apply the style to all media types. Fortunately, setting a max screen width of one pixel is quite valid and in my book that's pretty much the same as disabling the style tag.

 var style = document.querySelector("#my-style");

 document.querySelector("#btn-style").addEventListener("click",function() {
    style.removeAttribute("media");
 });

 document.querySelector("#btn-unstyle").addEventListener("click",function() {
    style.setAttribute("media", "max-width: 1px");
 });

<style id="my-style" media="max-width: 1px">
   p { color: red }
</style>

<p>Styled if you click below.</p>

<button id="btn-style">Style that p</button>

<button id="btn-unstyle">Unstyle that p</button>

To do it statically, just remove the style tag.

As an alternative, you could remove the style node from the DOM, and re-insert it to re-enable it.

One simple option is to make it an alternate stylesheet with a different title than the main stylesheet set. That will make browsers default it to disabled.