How to dynamically remove a stylesheet from the current page

Question

Is there a way to dynamically remove the current stylesheet from the page?

For example, if a page contains:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://..." />

...is there a way to later disable it with JavaScript? Extra points for using jQuery.

Answer 1

Well, assuming you can target it with jQuery it should be just as simple as calling remove() on the element:

$('link[rel=stylesheet]').remove();

That will remove all external stylesheets on the page. If you know part of the url then you can remove just the one you're looking for:

$('link[rel=stylesheet][href~="foo.com"]').remove();

And in Javascript

this is an example of remove all with query selector and foreach array

Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('link[rel=stylesheet]'), function(element){
      try{
        element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
      }catch(err){}
    });

//or this is similar
var elements = document.querySelectorAll('link[rel=stylesheet]');
for(var i=0;i<elements.length;i++){
    elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);
}