Been reading a little here and there regarding resetting CSS before adding your own css styles.
The reason for this, which I'm still not quite sure I understand. Is mostly so your site will look the same across browsers. (IE, FireFox, Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.) While I find this amusing, I've personally never looked into this or even used a reset CSS file.
What does a reset CSS file look like exactly? Here's an example.
/*
YUI 3.4.1 (build 4118)
Copyright 2011 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the BSD License.
http://yuilibrary.com/license/
*/
html{color:#000;background:#FFF}body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,
pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,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;
font-variant:normal}sup{vertical-align:text-top}sub{vertical-align:text-bottom}
input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit}
input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%}legend{color:#000}
As you can see, it "resets" all of the styles down to nothing. It's up to you to define how they present on the pages. I suppose this also helps give one the clear mind that since they have reset their CSS that one wouldn't have to deal with unpleasant surprises.
I suppose this could also cause more work to crop up. One would have to set all of their CSS rules. Would be very beneficial to have a base set of CSS rules to go by... perhaps even a template for all website projects.
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