This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The delete() method of the StylePropertyMap interface removes the CSS declaration with the given property.
delete(property)
propertyAn identifier indicating the stylistic feature (e.g., font, width, background color) to remove.
None (undefined).
The following example removes the background-image property from the element's style attribute.
// get the button element
const buttonEl = document.querySelector("button");
// remove background-image from style attribute
buttonEl.attributeStyleMap.delete("background-image");
| Specification |
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| CSS Typed OM Level 1> # dom-stylepropertymap-delete> |
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
delete |
66 | 79 | No | 53 | 16.4 | 66 | No | 47 | 16.4 | 9.0 | 66 | 16.4 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/StylePropertyMap/delete