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Default tag styles?

Sent by Peter L. Schlueter on 18 June 2004 13:01


The sample start of a style sheet was something like this...
	Html, body, div, table, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, form, img {
Margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 100.1%}
This is supposed to give the developer a clean palette to begin with.  I
have started employing this with no known problems to now.

Pete

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[EMAIL-REMOVED]]On Behalf Of Don Hinshaw
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [css-d] Default tag styles?



> MattH wrote:
>
>> Is there a list somewhere of what styles tags have by default?  I'm
>> trying to find out where an margin (or padding is coming from) and it
>> would be easier to check a list like that instead of trying every value.
>
>
>
> Different browsers have different default styles for tags.  For
> instance, IE and Moz put 8px margin on the body, Opera puts 8px padding.
>
>
Somebody recently posted a sample from the first line of their
stylesheet which, as I remember,  essentially zeroed out the padding and
margin values for several tags including body, p and a few more. That
struck me as a sound approach as it allows you to only have a +/- value
where you explicitly add it.
Anybody else remember that?

DonH

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