Comments on: A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:05:16 +0000

Nice article!! thanks!!

By: Dan Douglas

Dan Douglas — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:18:13 +0000

Perhaps what’s most silly about CSS reset is that the entire purpose of using either HTML or the XHTML namespace to begin with is to instruct the browser to apply implicit stylistic treatment to elements of that namespace. Using an XML MIME-type and no namespace consistently accomplishes exactly what you want, at least in all non-IE browsers. If you wanted to explicitly define the behavior of every element then you should be using vocabularies like XBL2 and XUL (plus CSS where possible and maybe some XSLT tricks) to do so dynamically. IMHO this concept wouldn’t be half-bad but unfortunately fully-generalized XML support with total exposure of a browser’s features to a standardized declarative interface is completely opposite to the direction the web seems to be going in as of late.

Also if I’m not mistaken some browsers like Opera use vendor-prefixed CSS properties as a mechanism for defining the basic behaviors of certain elements in HTML and SVG namespaces which you most definitely don’t want to wipe out as it would take a lot of browser-specific code to build it back up again.

By: Richard Cairns

Richard Cairns — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:53:35 +0000

I have played with CSS resets in the past, I guess the answer is to find one you like and sticl to it. I have been using the same one for around 5 years oops.

By: Gemma

Gemma — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:17:44 +0000

Thanks for this list of rests. I will bookmark it for future reference. I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s Reset Reloaded.

By the way, I had no idea Dan Schulz had passed away. R.I.P. :-(

By: HotCustard

HotCustard — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:04:14 +0000

Wow, never realized there were so many. Ive been using Html5 Boilerplate for my last couple of sites and its worked well.

By: Neonailol

Neonailol — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:56:49 +0000

thx for cool article, but this reset for designers mostly
but what about clients, that adding text just coping from msword or some other way try to break layout? not every CMS fix this, so is there any solution for resetting everything?

By: Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:55:48 +0000

Jeff Starr’s new auto-reset facility:

http://cssresetr.com/

I just tweeted him that I wish I had known about it when I wrote this article. It’s very new, so I think the article was already written when he made this available.

By: Fitri Mandiri

Fitri Mandiri — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:19:35 +0000

nice article.. CSS reset ninja :D
Thank you.

By: IdentyMe

IdentyMe — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:57:43 +0000

Thanks Michael for great tips.

By: Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:35:32 +0000

Awesome Article. I am finding myself using the YUI resent for the most part, and adding/removing anything that I need based on the project.

Thanks again for the great read!