diff --git a/ts/adaptors/HTMLAdaptor.ts b/ts/adaptors/HTMLAdaptor.ts
index 23a7b2f3a..f1cda5c6b 100644
--- a/ts/adaptors/HTMLAdaptor.ts
+++ b/ts/adaptors/HTMLAdaptor.ts
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ export interface MinHTMLElement<N, T> {
   className: string;
   classList: DOMTokenList;
   style: OptionList;
-  sheet?: {insertRule: (rule: string, index?: number) => void};
-
+  sheet?: {insertRule: (rule: string, index?: number) => void, cssRules: Array<{cssText: string}>};
   childNodes: (N | T)[] | NodeList;
   firstChild: N | T | Node;
   lastChild: N | T | Node;
@@ -522,15 +521,25 @@ AbstractDOMAdaptor<N, T, D> implements MinHTMLAdaptor<N, T, D> {
    * @override
    */
   public insertRules(node: N, rules: string[]) {
-    for (const rule of rules.reverse()) {
+    for (const rule of rules) {
       try {
-        node.sheet.insertRule(rule, 0);
+        node.sheet.insertRule(rule, node.sheet.cssRules.length);
       } catch (e) {
         console.warn(`MathJax: can't insert css rule '${rule}': ${e.message}`);
       }
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @override
+   */
+  public cssText(node: N) {
+    if (this.kind(node) !== 'style') {
+      return '';
+    }
+    return Array.from(node.sheet.cssRules).map(rule => rule.cssText).join('\n');
+  }
+
   /**
    * @override
    */
diff --git a/ts/adaptors/liteAdaptor.ts b/ts/adaptors/liteAdaptor.ts
index 8abf21913..9eae89cdb 100644
--- a/ts/adaptors/liteAdaptor.ts
+++ b/ts/adaptors/liteAdaptor.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import {OptionList} from '../util/Options.js';
 
 /************************************************************/
 
-
 /**
  * Implements a lightweight DOMAdaptor on liteweight HTML elements
  */
@@ -549,7 +548,7 @@ export class LiteBase extends AbstractDOMAdaptor<LiteElement, LiteText, LiteDocu
    * @override
    */
   public insertRules(node: LiteElement, rules: string[]) {
-    node.children = [this.text(rules.join('\n\n') + '\n\n' + this.textContent(node))];
+    node.children = [this.text(this.textContent(node) + '\n\n' + rules.join('\n\n'))];
   }
 
   /*******************************************************************/
diff --git a/ts/core/DOMAdaptor.ts b/ts/core/DOMAdaptor.ts
index 867869327..ea1d12b50 100644
--- a/ts/core/DOMAdaptor.ts
+++ b/ts/core/DOMAdaptor.ts
@@ -343,6 +343,12 @@ export interface DOMAdaptor<N, T, D> {
    */
   insertRules(node: N, rules: string[]): void;
 
+  /**
+   * @param {N} node        The stylesheet node whose rules are to be returned
+   * @return {string}       The string version of the stylesheet rules
+   */
+  cssText(node: N): string;
+
   /**
    * @param {N} node        The HTML node whose font size is to be determined
    * @return {number}       The font size (in pixels) of the node
@@ -656,6 +662,13 @@ export abstract class AbstractDOMAdaptor<N, T, D> implements DOMAdaptor<N, T, D>
    */
   public abstract insertRules(node: N, rules: string[]): void;
 
+  /**
+   * @override
+   */
+  public cssText(node: N) {
+    return (this.kind(node) === 'style' ? this.textContent(node) : '');
+  };
+
   /**
    * @override
    */