How to set CSS attributes to default values for a specific element (or prevent inheritance)

Question

Given any HTML element that is a child of another element and is automatically inheriting a series of CSS attributes: how can you set one (or all) of those attributes to the

Answer 1

CSS 4 CR has a provision for the revert keyword for values. It looks like intended for the exact purpose in the question and might be used like this:

.navigation input {    
    all: revert;
}

Still its browser support is not very impressive for the time of writing...