CSS Resets Overload: The most used CSS Resets

Posted by teejay on April 15, 2009

If you're like me and been developing for almost all browsers (IE7, FF2+, Safari, sometimes IE6), I guess you've come up with a lot of tricks and hacks to get a web page uniform in these browsers.

It actually isn't easy to do. However, I've always that a snippet which I've used more and more recently. These are CSS Resets.

CSS Resets were built to reduce the time programmers and designers use to make web pages cross-broswer-friendly. I have a list of the most used CSS Resets on the web.

The Meyer Reset

The reset being used by my favorite 960 CSS Framework

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,
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-weight: inherit;
 font-style: inherit;
 font-size: 100%;
 font-family: inherit;
 vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* remember to define focus styles! */
:focus {
 outline: 0;
}
body {
 line-height: 1;
 color: black;
 background: white;
}
ol, ul {
 list-style: none;
}
/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
 border-collapse: separate;
 border-spacing: 0;
}
caption, th, td {
 text-align: left;
 font-weight: normal;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
 content: "";
}
blockquote, q {
 quotes: "" "";
}

The YUI Reset

A nice css that I've been using on almost all my applications.

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;
}

The Generic Reset

* {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

The Blue Print Reset

The reset being used by Blueprint CSS Framework

html, body, div, span, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, code,
del, dfn, em, img, q, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  font-weight: inherit;
  font-style: inherit;
  font-size: 100%;
  font-family: inherit;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}

body { 
  line-height: 1.5; 
}

/* Tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup. */
table { border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0; }
caption, th, td { text-align: left; font-weight: normal; }
table, td, th { vertical-align: middle; }

/* Remove possible quote marks (") from <q>, <blockquote>. */
blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after { content: ""; }
blockquote, q { quotes: "" ""; }

/* Remove annoying border on linked images. */
a img { border: none; }

The Chris Poteet Reset

Note that this doesn't work on IE6.

/*

Reset Default Browser Styles
- Place first in the listing of external style sheets for cascading.
- Be sure to explicitly set margin/padding styles.
- Styles are not reset that have to do with display (block, inline) are not reset.

By: Chris Poteet & various influences

*/

* {
vertical-align: baseline;
font-family: inherit;
font-style: inherit;
font-size: 100%;
border: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
body {
padding: 5px;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, blockquote, form, ul, ol, dl {
margin: 20px 0;
}
li, dd, blockquote {
margin-left: 40px;
}
dt {
font-weight: bold;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}

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