Comments on: CSS Reset

By: Dave Woods

Dave Woods — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:23:57 +0000

@Dotker, thanks for letting me know. A couple of the files from some of the articles went missing when I redesigned the site… that should now be working again

@Tony B, in some browsers yes that’s fine but Safari in particular can be a bit funny when it comes to form elements so it’s best in my experience not to use the * selector for the reset.

By: dotker

dotker — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:02:51 +0000

cool thanks a lot for sharing another css reset was looking for something a little less & basic but link is down for the download just to let you know.

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網站製作學習誌 » [Web] 連結分享 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:45:30 +0000

[...] Reloaded 又修正一些部份了，然後釋出新的版本了。另外這裡有另一種版本的 CSS Reset [...]

By: Tony B

Tony B — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:53:05 +0000

I always use *{margin:0;padding:0} and have not had any problems with form elements (like textboxes and buttons?), I’m not sure what you mean. Can’t you just then set your own margin and padding to form elements anyway?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:10:13 +0000

Hi doc, using the star selector resets form elements as well which can present difficulties when trying to style these elements with CSS so is best to only reset the elements that you can control.

By: doc

doc — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:39:16 +0000

why not reset with *{margin:0;padding:0}

By: simon

simon — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:58:20 +0000

thank you

By: Dave Woods - Freelance Web Designer UK » 10 CSS Tips Every Web Developer Should Know

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:31:18 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:19:29 +0000

Good point Andy and you’re probably right in that you could actually leave those out of the reset.

The main reason that I’ve had these in is because in the past not all browsers have followed the W3C recommendations and therefore it’s been more of a safety net to ensure compatibility and consistency but as we move closer to a standards compliant web, you should be ok to leave these out.

Hope that makes sense.

By: Andy Killen

Andy Killen — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:24:01 +0000

as it did not show the elements as they became HTML, i’ll write them again….

i.e. a, span, abbr, acronym, b, i, strong, sup, sub, em, tbody, thead, tfoot….. etc