If your are experienced with CSS or have coded a website before, you have probably heard of CSS resets CSS resets are chunks of CSS code designed to make life easier on the coder/designer when coding the website. CSS resets are an extremely useful tool in making your site cross browser comptaible. Today, we will have a look at 6 popular CSS reset techniques.

Generic Reset

* {

 padding: 0;

 margin: 0;

 border: 0;

 }

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CSS can be used to set the style parameters of your entire website. With CSS, you can control the look of your website’s:

• Font types
• Font and element colors
• Padding
• Margins
• Element positioning
• And much more.

The advantage of CSS is that it allows you to set the formatting of your site without affecting the site’s underlying structure. By separating the layout and formatting properties of your website from its underlying logical structure, you can make cosmetic changes to your site without running the risk of altering the integrity of your site’s data by accident.

CSS Browser Selector.
A script that allows you to create browser specific CSS to target specific browsers. More »

On January 12, 1999, Microsoft Corp. (microsoft.com) was granted U.S. Patent #5,860,073. This particular patent, titled “Style sheets for publishing system(s),” covers “the use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system.” Sound familiar?

The inventors listed in this patent claim to have developed a system whereby “text, or other media such as graphics, is poured into the display region,” at which time style sheetsdefined as “a collection of formatting information, such as fonts and tabs”are applied. This patent seems to overlap concepts laid out in the W3C’s specifications for CSS and the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), which have been in development since at least 1994. More »