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Why cant I just do a simple reset of:
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 100% }
instead of:
html, body, div, span, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
abbr, address, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp,
small, strong, sub, sup, var,
b, i,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
outline:0;
font-size:100%;
vertical-align:baseline;
background:transparent;
}
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A CSS Reset style sheet is a list of rules that 'reset' all of the default browser styles. We reset the browser styles for two primary reasons: Not all browsers apply the same default rules. They may be similar, but not exact.
Wildcard Selectors (*, ^ and $) in CSS for classesWildcard selector is used to select multiple elements simultaneously. It selects similar type of class name or attribute and use CSS property. * wildcard also known as containing wildcard.
Resetting your styles, commonly referred to as CSS Reset or Reset CSS is the process of resetting (or more accurately – setting) the styles of all elements to a baseline value so that you avoid cross-browser differences due to their built-in default style settings.
A reset stylesheet (or CSS reset) is a collection of CSS rules used to clear the browser's default formatting of HTML elements, removing potential inconsistencies between different browsers.
First of all you can.
Answering the question: because you probably don't want to have all elements with specified parameters. For example you do not have inputs, buttons etc. there.
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Maybe because type selectors have more specificity than the universal selector.
Or because this CSS reset doesn't want to match all elements, like inputs.
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Applying all those styles to all elements would result in unanticipated styling. Please check out the following textbox, dropdown, and textarea reset with all your reset styles:
<input type="text" value="foo" />
<select>
<option>Foo</option>
<option>Bar</option>
</select>
<textarea rows="10" columns="30">foo</textarea>
http://jsfiddle.net/esm63r30/
Pretty bare!
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