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Anurupa Bose
Courses Plus Student 1,554 PointsWhat is the function of a CSS reset like normalize.css?
what does normalize.css mean and whereis it used
3 Answers
Tomas Pavlik
26,726 PointsHi, using normalize is recommended because all browsers have their own set of rules and your website may look different in some details. You can use normalize.css from the web or make your own - my basic is something like:
- { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
Anurupa Bose
Courses Plus Student 1,554 Pointsthat means normalize.css will have only margin and padding as 0. Nothing else is required . Thanks for the answer.
Tomas Pavlik
26,726 PointsHi, it is not that simple, normalize resets tens of rules. I just sometimes use the simplest reset which is padding and margin set to 0, but that's not enough for many projects :-)
Rashad Madison
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,369 PointsMaking your own is worth it to learn, but lets be real, when you develop sites and applications its only natural to take as many short cuts as possible, that is why we have, bootstrap, foundation, normalize, jquery etc etc.
Rashad Madison
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,369 PointsRashad Madison
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,369 PointsWell basically every browser has its own default setting for things like padding and margins. Normalize and other resets just change all those setting so you are working on a blank canvas, that is the same blank canvas on every browser.