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Thanks for the response!  I've changed my code to:

1. eventClick: function(event) {
2.     if (event.url) {
3.         $("#details").load(event.url, function() {
4.             $("#detail link").empty().remove();
5.             $("#detail *").each(function(){
6.                 $(this).attr("style", "");
7.             });
8.         });
9.     }
10. return false;
11. }

But of course it still doesn't work.  I think it might have something to do with the descendent selector ("detail *") but I can't be sure.  Is it possible to use the universal selector in this way?  There's no documentation on it.

You're right, it returns zero.  I didn't realise JQuery puts header content into the header of the parent file.  Interesting.  So how do I go about removing the <link> from the header without removing my own stylesheet?  Attach a class to my stylesheet and remove any links without that class?

Can I strip it before it gets loaded at all?


I checked in Firebug and the link IS imported into the #details element.  See attached.  It doesn't actually include anything though, and seems to be checked for on the local server and not the remote server.

The styles are NOT stripped from all other elements and as I thought before this seems to be down to the "#detail *" selector.
How does one go about selecting all descendents of an element for modifying?

That's what I thought, but that doesn't work because the "url #element" notation only works within a string.  The event.url part is a variable :(

I think it's solved now:

I used $("#details").load(event.url, function to bring in the page, followed by $("div,table,td", "#details").each to remove styles. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276249/jquery-how-to-select-multiple-descendants

1. eventClick: function(event) {
2.     if (event.url) {
3.         $("#details").load(event.url, function() {
4.             $("div,table,td", "#details").each(function(){
5.                 $(this).attr("style","");
6.             });
7.         });
8.     }
9. return false;
10. }

As you can see, I didn't bother removing the <link> after all as it is empty on import.

It doesn't work in IE though.