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Meyer himself is quite evenhanded about the use of resets. “Keep it simple, keep it compressed, and keep it at the top,” Teague advised. He noted the same pros and cons others had discussed about the use of resets and concluded that you should keep yours as simple as possible. He suggests that the use of resets should be determined by the needs of the web design project. In November 2009, author and designer Jason Cranford Teague examined the issues revolving around resetting CSS and came down firmly in the center. Naturally, there’s a middle ground to this whole thing. To learn more about this issue, Patrick Lauke has a tutorial on styling the :focus pseudo-class. The importance of making sure that the :focus pseudo-class selector has a visual property is such that a website called has the single mission of warning against setting the outline CSS property to none or 0 for links.

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Meyer promised an update to Reset CSS which will probably take the rule out and replace it with a comment reminding its users to define a visible :focus style rule.

But on the other hand, you can’t really get away with, ‘Maybe if we don’t mention this, no one will ever notice it.’ They always notice it,” Meyer said. Regarding the :focus style rule, he said: “Honestly, I put it in there to get people to define one.Ĭlearly what I should have done was have outlined 3px solid red or something like that.” “From an accessibility viewpoint the mistake was in mentioning it at all, unfortunately. In an email interview, Meyer discussed the :focus controversy and said that he didn’t anticipate that people would just use Reset CSS without first understanding how it worked. When there is no visual representation of the active element (such as a link), it makes web page navigation difficult for keyboard users because they are unable to see which HTML element they are currently on. “And since different browsers have different parameters your site will end up looking different depending on what browser you use.” In an interview by email, Chris Coyier–a web developer and the founder of the web design community, CSS-Tricks–expressed support for the universal selector margin/padding reset (discussed in Part 1). “If you don’t define all the default CSS parameters in your style sheet, the browser will use its default parameters instead,” Rand-Hendriksen said in his blog. Web designer/developer and book author Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a huge fan of CSS resets he has advised everyone to use them as the foundation of their stylesheets.

Part 2: A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets.

After discussing the rich and interesting history of CSS resets ( Part 1) and going over CSS reset stylesheet options ( Part 2), we will now discuss the pros and cons of using reset stylesheets here in Part 3.

#Simple css reset series

This is a three-part series of articles on the topic of CSS resets. This article explores the ongoing debate on whether or not web designers and web developers should reset their CSS, sharing the thoughts and opinions of several web professionals.