Comments on: CSS Trickery Part 1: Defaulting

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:01:54 +0000

Very simple but very useful, Thanks a lot!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:23:55 +0000

You can even go a bit further to reset any or all properties that are rendered differently or have different default values across various platforms. Check out Blueprint (a CSS framework) at Google Code http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:04:32 +0000

What a nice website this!! Cool and Fresh. Congratulations.. Just one stupid question: This theme is so original, so.. can you share it?

Regards.. and good job Rogie.

By: Rogie

Rogie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:51:04 +0000

Just a reminder, make use of this CSS technique on pesky forms like this:

form{ margin:0px; padding:0px; }

By: dexus

dexus — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:38:45 +0000

Width does nothing, it is standard at 100%.
And IE puts a border around its page, so it should be more like this:
html, body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
height:100%;
}

By: rogie

rogie — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:42:05 +0000

width and height @ 100% reset or set the page width and height to 100% of the available width and height. This really helps when you specify inner page elements as a certain width or height of their parent.

I’ll release a later trickery that will make use of this rule ;)

By: Renato Carvalho

Renato Carvalho — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:01:21 +0000

Nice!
I usually use the star element to reset margin and padding.
* { margin:0; padding:0;}

I never used width:100%; and height:100%; in html, body.
What they do?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:01:31 +0000

Hey, that’s a good idea, I generally only start by zero-ing the margin and padding. but I generally use a wildcard for that.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:08:01 +0000

Looking forward to the series.