index.md

title	inherit
slug	Web/CSS/inherit
tags	CSS CSS Cascade CSS Value Cascade Inheritance Keyword Layout Reference Style inherit
browser-compat	css.types.global_keywords.inherit

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The inherit CSS keyword causes the element to take the computed value of the property from its parent element. It can be applied to any CSS property, including the CSS shorthand property {{cssxref("all")}}.

For inherited properties, this reinforces the default behavior, and is only needed to override another rule.

Note: Inheritance is always from the parent element in the document tree, even when the parent element is not the containing block.

Examples

Exclude selected elements from a rule

/* Make second-level headers green */
h2 { color: green; }

/* ...but leave those in the sidebar alone so they use their parent's color */
#sidebar h2 { color: inherit; }

In this example, the h2 elements inside the sidebar might be different colors. For example, if one of them were the child of a div matched by the rule ...

div#current { color: blue; }

… it would be blue.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• Inheritance
• Use the {{cssxref("initial")}} keyword to set a property to its initial value.
• Use the {{cssxref("revert")}} keyword to reset a property to the value established by the user-agent stylesheet (or by user styles, if any exist).
• Use the {{cssxref("revert-layer")}} keyword to reset a property to the value established in a previous cascade layer.
• Use the {{cssxref("unset")}} keyword to set a property to its inherited value if it inherits or to its initial value if not.
• The {{cssxref("all")}} property lets you reset all properties to their initial, inherited, reverted, or unset state at once.