Hi,
You could write a _very_ simple plugin to do this if you wanted:
$.fn.delCss = function(p)
{
$(this).css(p, '');
}
Hope that helps,
Kelvin :)
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:42:40 -0800, jez9999 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to see the following in the next version of jQuery: a
> function named something like .delCss(name), which would actually
> delete/unset the style property of the given name on all matched
> elements.
>
> See, you can already do this by setting the desired style properties/
> values in a particular class and then using .removeClass(classname),
> so it seems to me to be logical that you should be able to do it with
> CSS style properties too.
>
> I know common things to do are to set properties to the empty string,
> or 'default', or something instead, but logically to me it feels nicer
> to be able to 'unset' the property, even if what jQuery is doing
> behind the scenes is just setting the property to the empty string.
> Perhaps in future browsers will offer a genuine way to unset
> properties in Javascript using an actual Javascrupt 'unset' function,
> which could then be implemented in jQuery's .delCss() function.
>
> An example of how this would work would be, say, I set a particular
> background-color on an element (either using style="" in the markup or
> via Javascript, which I understand is identical in terms of
> specificity). I could then later call $('#myElem').delCss('background-
> color') on it, which in this property's case would cause the browser
> to revert it to the default when the property is unspecified -
> 'transparent' (see
> http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/css/properties/colorbg/bgcolor.htm).
> This feels nicer to me than $('#myElem').css('background-color', '').
> Could we see this in future? :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Jeremy Morton (Jez)
> >
>
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