Cannot remove clip CSS property from an element in IE

[j@…]

Hi there,

For a demonstration try the following example in IE: ​http://jsfiddle.net/p5Ckf/

IE will throw an exception when el.style.clip = '' is set (which I think jQuery is catching, but either way, the clip is not unset).

IE <= 8 also does not support el.style.removeProperty, so the only way that I have been able to successfully remove the clip property is like so:

el.attr('style', el.attr('style').replace(/clip\: [^;]+;/i, ''))

(Eww.)

Note that you can set the clip property to 'auto'. This does not remove it, obviously, but can be useful in certain situations. Unfortunately in my use case I have descendent content with negative margins which still get clipped when clip is set to 'auto', so I really do need to remove the clip.

Thanks

[dmethvin]

Use 'auto' instead of '', which is an invalid value for that property.

[j@…]

Hi,

I take that point that the empty string is an invalid value when applied directly via el.style.clip.

However, the real point is that I am trying to do $(el).css('clip', ''), which according to the jQuery docs at ​http://api.jquery.com/css/, should work:

Setting the value of a style property to an empty string — e.g. $('#mydiv').css('color', '') — removes that property from an element

Setting the clip to auto has a different effect to removing the actual property completely - I explained this in my original post.

Please could you reopen the ticket?

Thanks

[dmethvin]

I'm reopening this, mainly because I think it might need to be closed cantfix. Do you have a proposal for how to fix this? If so please post it in jsFiddle. Otherwise I am not sure anything can be done about it.

[anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks for reopening.

The regexp method in my original report will work. It's a nasty hack, but it works.

Jon

[anonymous]

For other browsers we should obviously use el.style.removeProperty('clip').

[john]

This sounds like a good candidate for a plugin (using the new CSS Hook API).