As John Meyer states:
“The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on.”
I am using this pretty much as is. The only difference is that I have also deined my own style for “h1” styles heading, using 40px font size and red colouring:
reset-css.css
/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
v2.0 | 20110126
License: none (public domain)
*/
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, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed,
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
display: block;
}
body {
line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
content: '';
content: none;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
h1 {
font-size:40px;
color:red
}
The html contains the reference to the css file we have defined as shown:
example.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href="css-reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>This paragraph is styled with CSS.</p>
</body>
</html>
To demonstrate this example I place the two files (html + css) in the same folder.
To verify that the CSS styles have been applied I open the example.html file in a web browser as shown:
