Remove all Styles from an Element using JavaScript

# Remove all Styles from an Element using JavaScript

Use the removeAttribute() method to remove all styles from an element, e.g. box.removeAttribute('style').

The removeAttribute method will remove the style attribute from the element.

Here is the HTML for the examples.

index.html

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>bobbyhadz.com</title>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />

    <style>
      .bg-salmon {
        background-color: salmon;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div id="box" style="width: 100px; height: 100px" class="bg-salmon">
      Box 1
    </div>

    <script src="index.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

And here is the related JavaScript code.

index.js

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const box = document.getElementById('box');

// ✅ Remove all Styles from Element
box.removeAttribute('style');

// ✅ Remove specific style from Element
box.style.width = null;

// ✅ Remove all classes from an element
// box.removeAttribute('class');

We used the Element.removeAttribute method to remove the style attribute from the element.

The only parameter the method takes is the name of the attribute we want to remove.

If the attribute doesn't exist on the element, the removeAttribute() method doesn't throw an error, it simply returns undefined.

# Removing a specific CSS property from the element's styles

If you want to remove a specific CSS property from the element's style, set the property to null.

index.js

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const box = document.getElementById('box');

// ✅ Remove specific style from Element
box.style.width = null;

// ✅ Multi word properties are camel-cased
box.style.backgroundColor = null;

Conversely, if you need to update or set the specific CSS property, set it to a value that is not null.

index.js

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const box = document.getElementById('box');

// ✅ Remove specific style from Element
box.style.width = '200px';

If you need to remove all classes from an element, use the removeAttribute() method.

index.js

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const box = document.getElementById('box');

// ✅ Remove all classes from the element
box.removeAttribute('class');

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Remove all Styles from an Element using JavaScript