Reverting CSS style of <input type=submit button to its default style

Question

I\'m using a bookmarklet that inserts a script tag into the current web page.

This script has some UI and an \"input type=submit....\" tag in it.

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Answer 1

You can use below style to reset button style to default style

.reset-this {
    animation : none;
    animation-delay : 0;
    animation-direction : normal;
    animation-duration : 0;
    animation-fill-mode : none;
    animation-iteration-count : 1;
    animation-name : none;
    animation-play-state : running;
    animation-timing-function : ease;
    backface-visibility : visible;
    background : 0;
    background-attachment : scroll;
    background-clip : border-box;
    background-color : transparent;
    background-image : none;
    background-origin : padding-box;
    background-position : 0 0;
    background-position-x : 0;
    background-position-y : 0;
    background-repeat : repeat;
    background-size : auto auto;
    border : 0;
    border-style : none;
    border-width : medium;
    border-color : inherit;
    border-bottom : 0;
    border-bottom-color : inherit;
    border-bottom-left-radius : 0;
    border-bottom-right-radius : 0;
    border-bottom-style : none;
    border-bottom-width : medium;
    border-collapse : separate;
    border-image : none;
    border-left : 0;
    border-left-color : inherit;
    border-left-style : none;
    border-left-width : medium;
    border-radius : 0;
    border-right : 0;
    border-right-color : inherit;
    border-right-style : none;
    border-right-width : medium;
    border-spacing : 0;
    border-top : 0;
    border-top-color : inherit;
    border-top-left-radius : 0;
    border-top-right-radius : 0;
    border-top-style : none;
    border-top-width : medium;
    bottom : auto;
    box-shadow : none;
    box-sizing : content-box;
    caption-side : top;
    clear : none;
    clip : auto;
    color : inherit;
    columns : auto;
    column-count : auto;
    column-fill : balance;
    column-gap : normal;
    column-rule : medium none currentColor;
    column-rule-color : currentColor;
    column-rule-style : none;
    column-rule-width : none;
    column-span : 1;
    column-width : auto;
    content : normal;
    counter-increment : none;
    counter-reset : none;
    cursor : auto;
    direction : ltr;
    display : inline;
    empty-cells : show;
    float : none;
    font : normal;
    font-family : inherit;
    font-size : medium;
    font-style : normal;
    font-variant : normal;
    font-weight : normal;
    height : auto;
    hyphens : none;
    left : auto;
    letter-spacing : normal;
    line-height : normal;
    list-style : none;
    list-style-image : none;
    list-style-position : outside;
    list-style-type : disc;
    margin : 0;
    margin-bottom : 0;
    margin-left : 0;
    margin-right : 0;
    margin-top : 0;
    max-height : none;
    max-width : none;
    min-height : 0;
    min-width : 0;
    opacity : 1;
    orphans : 0;
    outline : 0;
    outline-color : invert;
    outline-style : none;
    outline-width : medium;
    overflow : visible;
    overflow-x : visible;
    overflow-y : visible;
    padding : 0;
    padding-bottom : 0;
    padding-left : 0;
    padding-right : 0;
    padding-top : 0;
    page-break-after : auto;
    page-break-before : auto;
    page-break-inside : auto;
    perspective : none;
    perspective-origin : 50% 50%;
    position : static;
    /* May need to alter quotes for different locales (e.g fr) */
    quotes : '\201C' '\201D' '\2018' '\2019';
    right : auto;
    tab-size : 8;
    table-layout : auto;
    text-align : inherit;
    text-align-last : auto;
    text-decoration : none;
    text-decoration-color : inherit;
    text-decoration-line : none;
    text-decoration-style : solid;
    text-indent : 0;
    text-shadow : none;
    text-transform : none;
    top : auto;
    transform : none;
    transform-style : flat;
    transition : none;
    transition-delay : 0s;
    transition-duration : 0s;
    transition-property : none;
    transition-timing-function : ease;
    unicode-bidi : normal;
    vertical-align : baseline;
    visibility : visible;
    white-space : normal;
    widows : 0;
    width : auto;
    word-spacing : normal;
    z-index : auto;
}

Reference link - GitHub

Above is the solution to your problem but i don't think css reset is something feasible unless we end up in such situation, so try to avoid this kind of situations.

I hope this will help you.

Thanks

Answer 2

I came up with the same problem. This posts helped me a lot. I had to assign that CSS rule to text inputs in a special table but not to all of the text inputs in the page. So I had to used the CSS rule with id of the table. This should work fine with form ids.

'#addForum note' is the id of the special formatted table.

#addForumNote input[type="text"], label, textarea{
  width: 425px;
  background-color: #ccc;
  border-style: solid;
  border: 1px;
  border-color: #7a7b7a;
}

Hope this may help someone. Thanks.

Answer 3

For Firefox you can find the default form styles by typing resource://gre/res/forms.css into the address bar, which does at least give you the details of the default style for an input button so that you can then copy them and override using a !important rule.

It's not entirely satisfactory though as the default style could of course change with a future version of the browser and the default style for different browsers might be different.

Answer 4

Thanks, used with good results

INPUT, SELECT
{
    color: #003333;
    font-size: 90%;
    border-bottom: #d3d3d3 1px solid;
    border-left: #d3d3d3 1px solid;
    border-top: #d3d3d3 1px solid;
    border-right: #d3d3d3 1px solid;
}

INPUT[type="submit"]
{
    background-color: #336699;
    color: #f0e68c;
}

Answer 5

What i've done and it seems to work in all browsers is...

$(buttonID).css({
'background-color':''
});

by just leaving the background-color empty it seems to revert the button to its default state.

Answer 6

Taken from Mozilla Developer Center

Restoring the default property value Because CSS does not provide a "default" keyword, the only way to restore the default value of a property is to explicitly re-declare that property. Thus, particular care should be taken when writing style rules using selectors (e.g., selectors by tag name, such as p) that you may want to override with more specific rules (such as those using id or class selectors), because the original default value cannot be automatically restored. Because of the cascading nature of CSS, it is good practice to define style rules as specifically as possible to prevent styling elements that were not intended to be styled.

The only way you have is to set your own class on the button that is very explicit in its css rules: i.e

background-color:grey !important;

instead of

background:grey;