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Using jQuery to Remove Background Color

July 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

We can use jQuery to remove the background color of a div by using the jQuery css() method and targeting the background-color property and setting it to transparent.

$("#div").css("background-color", "transparent");

Let’s say we have the following HTML:

<style>#box { background-color: green; width: 100px; height: 100px; }</style>
<div id="div">
  <div id="box"></div>
</div>

If we want to remove the green background color of the div with id #box, we will use the jQuery css() method in the following JavaScript code.

$("#box").css("background-color", "transparent");

If you are using WordPress, don’t forget to change the $ to jQuery as below:

jQuery("#box").css("background-color", "transparent");

Using jQuery to Remove the Background Color of a Div with a Click

To remove the background color of a div using jQuery, we can combine the css() method with a click event.

Let’s say we have the following HTML and we want to remove the background color of #box1.

<style>.boxes { background-color: green; width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-bottom: 20px; }</style>
<div>
  <div id="box1" class="boxes"></div>
  <div id="box2" class="boxes"></div>
  <div id="click-me">Remove background color of first box</div>
</div>

We can utilize both the jQuery click() method and jQuery css() method to change background color of the first box.

Below is the jQuery code which will allow the user to be able to update the background color of the div:

$("#click-me").click(function(){
  $("#box1").css("background-color", "transparent");
});

The final code and output for this example of how to remove the background color of our div using the jQuery css() method and JavaScript is below:

Code Output:

Remove background color of first box

Full Code:


<style>.boxes { background-color: green; width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-bottom: 20px; }</style>
<div>
  <div id="box1" class="boxes"></div>
  <div id="box2" class="boxes"></div>
  <div id="click-me">Remove background color of first box</div>
</div>

<script>

$("#click-me").click(function(){
  $("#box1").css("background-color", "transparent");
});

</script>

Using jQuery to Change the Background Color of a Div

We can also change the background color of a div by using the css() method.

Let’s say we have the following HTML:

<style>#box { background-color: green; width: 100px; height: 100px; }</style>
<div id="div">
  <div id="box"></div>
</div>

If we want to change the background color of this box from green to red, we will once again use the jQuery css() method targeting the background-color property.

$("#box").css("background-color", "red");

The second argument can be any valid css color. So for example, we could use the hexadecimal value for red to change the background color to red.

$("#box").css("background-color", "#FF0000");

Hopefully this article has been useful for you to understand how to use jquery to remove background color.

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