CSS initial value examples

CSS initial value is used to reset a css property to its user-agent value. It can be used during debugging (e.g. In Chrome developer tools) or to reset a property to its initial value in some third party library.

Here is sample code using css initial

<style type="text/css">
h2 {
  color:green;
}
.box > h2 {color:initial};
</style>

<h2>h2 text</h2>
<div class="box">
  <h2>h2 text with color initial</h2>
</div>

Specification and Browser compatibility

Related links

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