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http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#concept-css-style-sheet-css-rules Nothing seems to ever actually initialise the CSS rules. In fact, it's not really clear what begins the whole parsing thing -- nothing in CSSOM seems to invoke anything in CSS Syntax currently.