meyerweb.com — Eric Meyer, CSS Guru gives us a run down on some extreme CSS Reset. Think of these as a starting point for creating your own defaults, in addition to being a way to illuminate the nature of browser defaults. Simply the act of taking those defaults into consideration and thinking about them closely puts you ahead of 99% of your peers.
May 1, 2007 View in Crawl 4
wvannusMay 2, 2007
Design and layout are good, if a little spaced out. Colors, eh...he's a layout guy.
Closed AccountMay 2, 2007
CSS has nothing to do with graphics
hairyfotrMay 2, 2007
Don't give in to peer pressure :)
hater2winMay 2, 2007
Can you merge the two of them? Make one SUPER RESET stylesheet? Then you can submit it to digg and its sure to hit the front page:AMAZING SUPER RESET STYLESHEET! Design Apple iPhone websites easily!No, but seriously, can you merge them?
genisis329May 2, 2007
Ah, the font attribute...this is very strange, but quite often browsers will mess up when it is written like this. Why, who knows, sometimes you can even refer to their css reference and it doesn't make sense. Thats why I always, always, use the separate font-x attributes. Go ahead an mess around with it, order matters and the browser sometimes messes up for some reason.
secretmodeMay 2, 2007
I believe this thing requires a lot more page rendering time...please confirm
steelfrogMay 2, 2007
"btw, a much more concise version of the reset css (using the universal selector) is:"While this is true, it also affects form elements such as input, textarea, etc. which are a bitch to re-style and position properly if you overwrite browser defaults.
steelfrogMay 2, 2007
Not really. Unless you consider a few bytes "a lot".If you're going to use stylsheets, you might as well go with something like this and then redefine elements to your exact specifications. It's still allot lighter than hard coding HTML tags anyway.
elliotlarsonMay 4, 2007
man, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for CSS innovations these days... frickin Microsoft - single handedly holding the web back since 2000
odessakidNov 20, 2008
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