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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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 »

Free CSS Toolbox is a freeware productivity software for web developers who work with CSS code.

Free CSS Toolbox includes a number of tools for fast-tracking and enhancing the development of style sheet code, such as an advanced CSS Formatter and CSS Validator. More »

CSS has evolved over the past several years under the guidance of the W3C into its current form. Most modern browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2, Apple Safari 2, Opera 9) support CSS Level 2 (which includes CSS Level 1 and CSS-Positioning). More »

When a visitor loads one of your Web pages, either by typing the address into a browser or by clicking a link, the server (the computer that stores the Web page) sends the HTML file to the visitor’s computer along with any files linked to or embedded in the HTML file, such as images or movies. The CSS code, or style sheet, can be either embedded directly in the HTML file or linked to it. More »

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow for the designer to separate the content from the design. A CSS-based design allows the designer to create a site with much less code than a site with an identical look that has been designed with tables. More »