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1 point by evanrmurphy 5084 days ago | link | parent

CSS resets were a big breakthrough for me as well. :) Is `html {margin:0px; padding:0px}` really the full contents of your reset, though? I use a borrowed one that's much longer, but I suspect one as simple as yours would work for a lot of cases.

Also, does `<td width="25%">` behave any differently from `<td style="width: 25%">`?



2 points by thaddeus 5084 days ago | link

It hasn't for me and I use both often. But I don't test every possible os+browser+version combination. I add width to the style tag only if I have a style tag already.

[edit: yes that's my entire reset, but I don't make wildly complicated layouts]

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1 point by evanrmurphy 5084 days ago | link

> I add width to the style tag only if I have a style tag already.

You mean because just using the width attribute is more concise?

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1 point by thaddeus 5083 days ago | link

Yup + I've always imagined style tags require more parsing therefore are less efficient. In retrospect this is probably untrue, but still the code is shorter so I figure why not. :)

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1 point by evanrmurphy 5083 days ago | link

thanks for clarifying

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1 point by evanrmurphy 5083 days ago | link

Interestingly, Arc Forum doesn't do any kind of reset in the css: http://ycombinator.com/news.css. However a lot of the tables set cellpadding=0 and cellspacing=0, which should cover most of the cases re: tables.

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2 points by akkartik 5084 days ago | link

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset

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1 point by shader 5084 days ago | link

I don't know that it does, but it's probably better supported by older browsers.

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