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09-24-2008, 04:04 AM
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 Resetting CSS
How many people use a separate stylesheet to reset all your CSS? If so, which reset do you recommend? Do you think its a good practice to do a full reset?
I usually just do the common:
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* {margin:0;padding:0;}
I want to use a reset sheet that I could import into all my coding work but Ive seen so many different reset versions... Is it even necessary or is it just more work than needed? 
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09-24-2008, 05:16 AM
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09-24-2008, 06:16 AM
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We had a custom reset sheet for a long time, but recently switched to meyers reset after several requests.
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09-24-2008, 08:50 AM
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I also use Meyer's "reset reloaded" stylesheet, amongst other things, with every document. 
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09-25-2008, 02:00 AM
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I guess I will start using Meyer's
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09-25-2008, 01:20 PM
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09-25-2008, 04:04 PM
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I personally do not like using a reset.css.
I think it does more harm than good. Because I try to cover most HTML elements in my stylesheet, adding my own styles, it seems like a waste of time to reset them in the first place.
They also remove things like link outlines, which can be harful to accesibilty, and a number of other things... 
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09-25-2008, 10:50 PM
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The reset helps a lot if you want the website to look the same in almost all browsers, since they have different "default" values for some elements (i think they have different margin and padding default settings).
Once you apply the reset, you can specify your own margin and padding for each element, and you will be sure that it will work the same for all browsers.
If you want to, you can also edit or delete some lines from the reset.css that you think that don't affect your site.
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09-26-2008, 12:10 AM
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Like many other people in this thread, I use Eric Meyer's reset stylesheet.
Using the global reset that you commonly use is a horrible habit to get into, as it will break certain things. Plus it only resets margins and paddings; not everything else.
Be careful when using reset stylesheets though, as mentioned by Gurnk, they can have a negative effect on things like accessibility... but ONLY when used improperly. So use them properly and the advantages are significant.
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09-26-2008, 12:25 AM
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This is the guy I use, a seperate reset.css
Code:
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
table {
border-collapse:collapse;
border-spacing:0;
}
fieldset,img {
border:0;
}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
}
ol,ul {
list-style:none;
}
caption,th {
text-align:left;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
font-size:100%;
font-weight:normal;
}
q:before,q:after {
content:'';
}
abbr,acronym { border:0;
}
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