TheinheritCSS keyword causes the element to take thecomputed value of the property from its parent element. It can be applied to any CSS property, including the CSS shorthand propertyall.

Forinherited properties, this reinforces the default behavior, and is only needed to override another rule.

Examples

Exclude selected elements from a rule

/* Make second-level headers green */h2 {  color: green;}/* Leave those in the sidebar alone so they use their parent's color */#sidebar h2 {  color: inherit;}

In this example, theh2 elements inside the sidebar might be different colors. For example, consider one of them that would by the child of adiv matched by the rule:

div#current {  color: blue;}

Then, it would be blue.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Inheritance
• Use theinitial keyword to set a property to its initial value.
• Use therevert keyword to reset a property to the value established by the user-agent stylesheet (or by user styles, if any exist).
• Use therevert-layer keyword to reset a property to the value established in a previous cascade layer.
• Use theunset keyword to set a property to its inherited value if it inherits or to its initial value if not.
• Theall property lets you reset all properties to their initial, inherited, reverted, or unset state at once.