TheunsetCSS keyword resets a property to its inherited value if the property naturally inherits from its parent, and to itsinitial value if not. In other words, it behaves like theinherit keyword in the first case, when the property is aninherited property, and like theinitial keyword in the second case, when the property is anon-inherited property.

unset can be applied to any CSS property, including the CSS shorthand propertyall.

Examples

Color

color is an inherited property.

HTML

<p>This text is red.</p><div>  <p>This text is also red.</p></div><div>  <p>This text is green (default inherited value).</p></div>

CSS

.foo {  color: blue;}.bar {  color: green;}p {  color: red;}.bar p {  color: unset;}

Result

Border

border is a non-inherited property.

HTML

<p>This text has a red border.</p><div>  <p>This text has a red border.</p></div><div>  <p>This text has a black border (initial default, not inherited).</p></div>

CSS

div {  border: 1px solid green;}p {  border: 1px solid red;}.bar p {  border-color: unset;}

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Use theinitial keyword to set a property to its initial value.
• Use theinherit keyword to make an element's property the same as its parent.
• 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.
• Theall property lets you reset all properties to their initial, inherited, reverted, or unset state at once.