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CSS Mobile-First CSS Layout Mobile-First CSS Layout CSS Reset with Normalize

Posted by ja5on
ja5on
10,338 Points

With normalize, why to tell padding: 0; why not do that in a normal css file?

With normalize, why to tell padding: 0; why not do that in a normal css file?

3 Answers

Chris Adams
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Chris Adams
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Your normalize will target the styles that need standardization across browsers. So, lots of styles are "reset" using this file, including padding. You can reassign your preferred styles in your styles.css file after normalize has reset it.

ja5on
ja5on
10,338 Points
ja5on
ja5on
10,338 Points

Oh yes i'm confusing the two, :-( thanks :-)

William Mead
William Mead
9,937 Points
William Mead
William Mead
9,937 Points

I agree with jaSon. It seems that adding your own styles in the normalize.css file amounts to a fork of the file. If you ever want to update the file with a new version, you would lose these changes. It seems like a better idea to keep your own personal resets at the top of your own stylesheet.