diff --git a/src/__tests__/to-have-style.js b/src/__tests__/to-have-style.js
index 0c313550..6a636f95 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/to-have-style.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/to-have-style.js
@@ -146,26 +146,55 @@ describe('.toHaveStyle', () => {
     )
   })
 
-  test('handles styles as object', () => {
-    const {container} = render(`
-      <div class="label" style="background-color: blue; height: 100%">
-        Hello World
-      </div>
-    `)
+  describe('object syntax', () => {
+    test('handles styles as object', () => {
+      const {container} = render(`
+        <div class="label" style="background-color: blue; height: 100%">
+          Hello World
+        </div>
+      `)
 
-    expect(container.querySelector('.label')).toHaveStyle({
-      backgroundColor: 'blue',
-    })
-    expect(container.querySelector('.label')).toHaveStyle({
-      backgroundColor: 'blue',
-      height: '100%',
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).toHaveStyle({
+        backgroundColor: 'blue',
+      })
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).toHaveStyle({
+        backgroundColor: 'blue',
+        height: '100%',
+      })
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
+        backgroundColor: 'red',
+        height: '100%',
+      })
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
+        whatever: 'anything',
+      })
     })
-    expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
-      backgroundColor: 'red',
-      height: '100%',
+
+    test('supports dash-cased property names', () => {
+      const {container} = render(`
+        <div class="label" style="background-color: blue; height: 100%">
+          Hello World
+        </div>
+      `)
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).toHaveStyle({
+        'background-color': 'blue',
+      })
     })
-    expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
-      whatever: 'anything',
+
+    test('requires strict empty properties matching', () => {
+      const {container} = render(`
+        <div class="label" style="width: 100%;height: 100%">
+          Hello World
+        </div>
+      `)
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
+        width: '100%',
+        height: '',
+      })
+      expect(container.querySelector('.label')).not.toHaveStyle({
+        width: '',
+        height: '',
+      })
     })
   })
 })
diff --git a/src/__tests__/utils.js b/src/__tests__/utils.js
index 58733365..ec67a43a 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/utils.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/utils.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import {
   deprecate,
   checkHtmlElement,
   HtmlElementTypeError,
-  parseJStoCSS,
   toSentence,
 } from '../utils'
 import document from './helpers/document'
@@ -84,40 +83,6 @@ describe('checkHtmlElement', () => {
   })
 })
 
-describe('parseJStoCSS', () => {
-  describe('when all the styles are valid', () => {
-    it('returns the JS parsed as CSS text', () => {
-      expect(
-        parseJStoCSS(document, {
-          backgroundColor: 'blue',
-          height: '100%',
-        }),
-      ).toBe('background-color: blue; height: 100%;')
-    })
-  })
-
-  describe('when some style is invalid', () => {
-    it('returns the JS parsed as CSS text without the invalid style', () => {
-      expect(
-        parseJStoCSS(document, {
-          backgroundColor: 'blue',
-          whatever: 'anything',
-        }),
-      ).toBe('background-color: blue;')
-    })
-  })
-
-  describe('when all the styles are invalid', () => {
-    it('returns an empty string', () => {
-      expect(
-        parseJStoCSS(document, {
-          whatever: 'anything',
-        }),
-      ).toBe('')
-    })
-  })
-})
-
 describe('toSentence', () => {
   it('turns array into string of comma separated list with default last word connector', () => {
     expect(toSentence(['one', 'two', 'three'])).toBe('one, two and three')
diff --git a/src/to-have-style.js b/src/to-have-style.js
index 3e8a155b..a404c40a 100644
--- a/src/to-have-style.js
+++ b/src/to-have-style.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {matcherHint} from 'jest-matcher-utils'
 import jestDiff from 'jest-diff'
 import chalk from 'chalk'
-import {checkHtmlElement, parseCSS, parseJStoCSS} from './utils'
+import {checkHtmlElement, parseCSS} from './utils'
 
 function getStyleDeclaration(document, css) {
   const styles = {}
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ function isSubset(styles, computedStyle) {
     !!Object.keys(styles).length &&
     Object.entries(styles).every(
       ([prop, value]) =>
-        computedStyle.getPropertyValue(prop.toLowerCase()) === value,
+        computedStyle[prop] === value ||
+        computedStyle[prop.toLowerCase()] === value,
     )
   )
 }
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ function printoutStyles(styles) {
 // received computed styles
 function expectedDiff(expected, computedStyles) {
   const received = Array.from(computedStyles)
-    .filter(prop => expected[prop])
+    .filter(prop => expected[prop] !== undefined)
     .reduce(
       (obj, prop) =>
         Object.assign(obj, {[prop]: computedStyles.getPropertyValue(prop)}),
@@ -51,14 +52,10 @@ function expectedDiff(expected, computedStyles) {
   return diffOutput.replace(`${chalk.red('+ Received')}\n`, '')
 }
 
-function getCSStoParse(document, css) {
-  return typeof css === 'object' ? parseJStoCSS(document, css) : css
-}
-
 export function toHaveStyle(htmlElement, css) {
   checkHtmlElement(htmlElement, toHaveStyle, this)
-  const cssToParse = getCSStoParse(htmlElement.ownerDocument, css)
-  const parsedCSS = parseCSS(cssToParse, toHaveStyle, this)
+  const parsedCSS =
+    typeof css === 'object' ? css : parseCSS(css, toHaveStyle, this)
   const {getComputedStyle} = htmlElement.ownerDocument.defaultView
 
   const expected = getStyleDeclaration(htmlElement.ownerDocument, parsedCSS)
diff --git a/src/utils.js b/src/utils.js
index c4fac2cb..b19c581f 100644
--- a/src/utils.js
+++ b/src/utils.js
@@ -192,12 +192,6 @@ function compareArraysAsSet(a, b) {
   return undefined
 }
 
-function parseJStoCSS(document, css) {
-  const sandboxElement = document.createElement('div')
-  Object.assign(sandboxElement.style, css)
-  return sandboxElement.style.cssText
-}
-
 function toSentence(
   array,
   {wordConnector = ', ', lastWordConnector = ' and '} = {},
@@ -218,6 +212,5 @@ export {
   getTag,
   getSingleElementValue,
   compareArraysAsSet,
-  parseJStoCSS,
   toSentence,
 }