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CSSStyleDeclaration: removeProperty() method

The CSSStyleDeclaration.removeProperty() method interface removes a property from a CSS style declaration object.

Syntax

js

removeProperty(property)

Parameters

  • property
    • A string representing the property name to be removed. Multi-word property names are hyphenated (kebab-case) and not camel-cased.

Return value

A string equal to the value of the CSS property before it was removed.

Exceptions

NoModificationAllowedError DOMException

Thrown when the property or declaration block is read-only.

Examples

The following JavaScript code removes the background-color CSS property from a selector rule:

js

const declaration = document.styleSheets[0].rules[0].style;
const oldValue = declaration.removeProperty("background-color");

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
removeProperty 1 12 1 9 ≤12.1 1 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0

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