How can I erase all inline styles with javascript and leave only the styles specified in the css style sheet?

Question

If I have the following in my html:

And this in my c

Answer 1

I was using the $('div').attr('style', ''); technique and it wasn't working in IE8.

I outputted the style attribute using alert() and it was not stripping out inline styles.

.removeAttr ended up doing the trick in IE8.