html block css

[catchit2000]

Is there a way to block css being used for a certain part of html on a page.

mary

[stymiee]

Use a DIV:

<div id="whatever">
Put content here.
</div>

[Nadia P]

I'd love to know what the question actually means ;-)

Nadia

[AutisticCuckoo]

Hi Mary, and welcome to SitePoint!

No, there is no way to block or disable CSS for parts of a page. There are two ways to work around it, though:

1. Enclose the part in a DIV with an id attribute, as stymiee said. Then apply CSS rules to it that cancels the rules you wish not to apply.
   
2. Use classes and IDs for everything but the special part, and apply CSS rules only to those classes and IDs.

[htmlguy]

Yea, or if you applied body styles in css, put the stuff you don't want formatted in css in a special div, which you choose the defaults or the look of that div.
HTMLGuy

[catchit2000]

Thanks for your reply. And Thanks to all other replies.

Is there an easy way to set css defaults or do you have to list all attributes and set them.

mary

Yea, or if you applied body styles in css, put the stuff you don't want formatted in css in a special div, which you choose the defaults or the look of that div.
HTMLGuy

[catchit2000]

Thank you
mary

Hi Mary, and welcome to SitePoint!

No, there is no way to block or disable CSS for parts of a page. There are two ways to work around it, though:

1. Enclose the part in a DIV with an id attribute, as stymiee said. Then apply CSS rules to it that cancels the rules you wish not to apply.
   
2. Use classes and IDs for everything but the special part, and apply CSS rules only to those classes and IDs.

[htmlguy]

Well for browser defaults just do this:
body (or #divid) {
}

Basically that makes no changes to the default of the body, or the browser.
HTMLGuy

[AutisticCuckoo]

Is there an easy way to set css defaults or do you have to list all attributes and set them.

There is no easy way to 'undo' CSS set by another rule, unfortunately.

Off Topic:

BTW, it's called properties, not 'attributes' in CSS.