First things first, credit where it's due. This reset is heavily inspired by Eric Meyer's CSS reset. A couple of years ago I directly converted it to Sass so I could bundle it with the rest of my styles, and have added a few rules of my own over time.
Other than the usual "set everything to zero" stuff you'd expect from a full reset, there are a couple of little additions I've dropped in to neutralise some browser quirks - for example setting box-sizing: border-box
on everything, and forcing some defaults for text-rendering
, -webkit-font-smoothing
and text-size-adjust
. Your mileage may vary with this stuff, but I find myself using these settings in almost every project.
Sass reset
Yes, I'm one of those lunatics who likes pure Sass syntax (note from future Fraser - I am no longer one of those lunatics). Don't worry, an SCSS/CSS version is just below.
*, *:before, *:after
box-sizing: border-box
html, body, div, span, object, iframe, figure, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, code, em, img, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, b, u, i, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, main, canvas, embed, footer, header, nav, section, video
margin: 0
padding: 0
border: 0
font-size: 100%
font: inherit
vertical-align: baseline
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased
text-size-adjust: none
footer, header, nav, section, main
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
input
-webkit-appearance: none
border-radius: 0
SCSS (CSS) reset
Same as above, but this time with brackets and semi-colons - compliant to CSS and SCSS syntax.
*, *:before, *:after{
box-sizing: border-box;
}
html, body, div, span, object, iframe, figure, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, code, em, img, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, b, u, i, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, main, canvas, embed, footer, header, nav, section, video{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
text-size-adjust: none;
}
footer, header, nav, section, main{
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;
}
input{
-webkit-appearance: none;
border-radius: 0;
}
Enjoy! Don't forget you can download both versions, as well as minified CSS over on GitHub.