CSS - initial

Example

/* give headers a green border */
h2 { border: medium solid green }

/* but make those in the sidebar use the value of the "color" property */
#sidebar h2 { border-color: initial; }

<p style="color:red">
   this text is red
      <em style="color:initial">
         this text is in the initial color (e.g. black)
      </em>
   this is red again
</p> 

Description  

The initial CSS keyword applies the initial value of a property to an element. It is allowed on every CSS property and causes the element for which it is specified to use the initial value of the property.

Browser Compatibility  

[1] From Firefox 1.0, increasing support for -moz-initial has been added in each version, culminating with its support for quotes since Firefox 3.5 (Gecko 1.9.1). The last bit was its support for the non-standard -moz-border-*-colors in Firefox 3.6 (Gecko 1.9.2). Support for the prefixed -moz-initial keyword has been removed from Firefox 24 in favor of the unprefixed initial keyword.

See Also  

• initial value, inherit, unset, revert

Specifications  

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