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CSS Tips: How to remove all CSS from a page at once

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I wanted to see what a page looked like without CSS.

One way I know is to open the DevTools, in the Sources panel you’ll see the list of CSS files. You can remove the content in the CSS file in there, and the page will change. For example, here’s my site (thereactcourse.com).

It has 3 CSS files, and I can delete the entire content of one:

and this is what happens: the page changes because we removed the CSS:

Note: this only changes the CSS in the browser and does not modify your actual files, even when editing locally.

But some sites today embed the CSS in a style tag (including mine), and some have many CSS files scattered around, so it’s not always practical.

Open the console and run this command:

document
  .querySelectorAll('style,link[rel="stylesheet"]')
  .forEach((item) => item.remove())

This removes both inline and linked CSS.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: How to center an element with CSS
2: CSS Border inside the element
3: What are good CSS Breakpoint values for Responsive Design?
4: How to debug CSS by bisecting
5: How to disable text selection using CSS
6: How to put an item at the bottom of its container using CSS
7: CSS, how to select elements that do not have a class
8: How to stick an element on the bottom of the page with flexbox
9: How to apply padding to multiple lines in CSS
10: Making a table responsive using CSS
11: CSS url()
12: How to make an element smaller or bigger with CSS
13: Customizing visited links
14: Fix extra space after inline element
15: How to create a sidebar that’s sticky but also scrolls
16: How to embed YouTube videos using the correct aspect ratio
17: Responsive pre tags in CSS
18: Responsive YouTube Video Embeds
19: ▶︎ How to remove all CSS from a page at once
20: How I added Dark Mode to my website
21: How to add a simple dark mode