revert keyword

Category: CSS
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 84)
Intent stage: Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

The 'revert' keyword allows authors to roll back the cascade to the previous cascade level for a given CSS property. For example, on a <div> element, specifying 'display:revert' will cause the computed value of 'display' to be 'block' (assuming no user styles).

Motivation

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade/#default
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: Positive — The bug has 75 stars at the time of writing, that counts as 'positive'.
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579788

Docs: N/A

Explainers: N/A

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