function to remove Css instead of having to do .css({'background': ''});

This function was written by user147767 (http://stackoverflow.com/users/147767/user147767) on StackOverFlow

jQuery.fn.extend
({
    removeCss: function(cssName) {
        return this.each(function() {
            var curDom = $(this);
            jQuery.grep(cssName.split(","),
                    function(cssToBeRemoved) {
                        curDom.css(cssToBeRemoved, '');
                    });
            return curDom;
        });
    }
});