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CSS

Posted by Jeremy Coleman
Jeremy Coleman
5,449 Points

* {Margin: 0; Padding: 0;} Bad Practice?

I seen this a couple times in tutorials and was wondering if this would be bad practice to use in real world projects?

* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

2 Answers

Eric Buchmann
Eric Buchmann
15,080 Points
Eric Buchmann
Eric Buchmann
15,080 Points

There shouldn't be anything wrong with that. The reset CSS files that are out there do something similar anyway to reset all of the styles for consistency. Or check out http://cssreset.com/ it has some reset CSS files on there that you can use too if you want to reset everything to be the same between browsers.

Jeremy Coleman
Jeremy Coleman
5,449 Points
Jeremy Coleman
Jeremy Coleman
5,449 Points

Alright, I have something similar, although it didn't reset a lot of the elements so was just curious if it was a okay thing to do. Thanks for the help!