On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 11:46 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> I'm running out of technical resources... I can't find an answer on
> google, and my O'Reilley's JavaScript book doesn't have the answer
> either... :-(
>
> I can set a background color of an element like this:
>
> this.style.backgroundColor='red';
>
> but how can I *remove* that style? Obviously I can change it to a
> different color, I want to actually remove the style setting altogether.
>
> this.style.removeProperty('backgroundColor');
>
> did not have the desired effect... no change, but no javascript error in
> the javascript console either (firefox 1.0.7)
>
> Any ideas on how to *remove" a style setting... or is there a "special"
> color like transparent?
>
> this.style.backgroundColor='transparent';
Yes, in CSS specification there is 'background-color: transparent;`
see:http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background-color.asp
But I dont know if it works with javascript. It should, I think.
Peter Kostov
> Thanks for any ideas....
>
> Don Russell
>
