How do I unset an element's CSS attribute using jQuery?

Question

If I set a CSS value on a specific element using:

$(\'#element\').css(\'background-color\', \'#ccc\');

I want to be able to unset that elem

Answer 1

For what it's worth this appears not to work in IE 8 for 'filter,' I had to use this (in fadeIn callback):

$(this).attr('style', $(this).attr('style').replace(/\bfilter:\s*;*/, ''));

Obviously, I had need to remove an empty inline filter declaration so the CSS could take effect; there were other inline rules so I couldn't just remove the style attribute.