Many new web developers or web application developers may be did not hear about reset CSS. Many web developers use the global selectors and global CSS styling. That is very basic reason behind that. They want to display their CSS style across the various browsers.
What is reset css and How to use the reset CSS
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. With reset CSS you are overriding the setting of various browser setting and elements. There are inconsistencies with every browser. For reducing the issues and setting of browser you need to reset the browser properties.
With reset CSS you can set the border, font color, color, margin, padding, img, h1, a, etc properties. The problem is that every browser’s stylesheet has subtle but fundamental differences. By using a CSS reset. There are many big sites and tool available for using the reset the CSS.
In reset CSS you need to use the most common HTML tags and their properties for reset there CSS properties.
you can also create you reset CSS as per your website need. There are many useful and good reset available. I like the YUI reset CSS most because that is really useful.
For using the YUI reset CSS you need to just add the following line in your website.
<!-- Source File --> css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.2.0/build/cssreset/reset-min.css">
For more information about YUI reset css you can visit the following URL
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssreset/
Following reset css is most common in each and every website and following code is useful for every website.
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
Reset CSS is really useful for every website. do use the reset CSS in you stylesheet. There is another good reset CSS called blueprint which you download from following URL.
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/.
Some people are saying dont use the reset css because that will increase the your css size but I must admin this thing.
you should use the reset css that will save your big time.
