initial

The initial CSS keyword applies the initial value of a property to an element. It can be applied to any CSS property, including the CSS shorthand all.

Example

HTML

<p>
  <span>This text is red.</span>
  <em>This text is in the initial color (e.g., black).</em>
  <span>This is red again.</span>
</p>

CSS

p {
  color: red;
}
em {
  color: initial;
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

[1] From Firefox 1.0 onward, increasing support for -moz-initial was added in each version, culminating with the support for quotes in Firefox 3.5 (Gecko 1.9.1). The last addition was 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 as of Firefox 24 in favor of the unprefixed initial keyword.

See also

• Use unset to set a property to its inherited value if it inherits, or to its initial value if not.
• Use revert to reset a property to the value established by the user-agent stylesheet (or by user styles, if any exist).
• Use inherit to make an element's property the same as its parent.