On Monday 10 Oct 2005 19:53, peter kostov wrote:
> 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.
This would work, but you'd still be overriding the stylesheet, not clearing
the style property of the element.
--
Jim
