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Asked: 2026-05-15T00:44:39+00:00

I’ve been working for a guy whose been teaching me css. I made a

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I’ve been working for a guy whose been teaching me css. I made a website based on his designs which I’m pretty proud of, but he got back to me saying that I need to explicitly declare the padding, margin, position, and overflow (specifically every item should have “overflow:hidden”) on every item. Is there any basis to this at all? Is there anything I can use to refute this? I thought that declaring something like div,span,h1,[...] {padding:0;margin:0;postion:static;overflow:hidden} would take care of everything due to the cascade.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Another resource, that I think is better for resetting CSS is YUI Reset (from Yahoo!). It has a great reset CSS file with additional files you can add on the end to make everything look consistent cross-browser (including fonts which can get very annoying very fast in CSS)

    Here are the links

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

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

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

    I use the Reset, Base and Font stylesheets (in that order) in ALL my web projects.

    Using a reset stylesheet that consists of “* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }” will create even worse cross-browser issues. You need to reset everything and THEN declare a base that all the browsers can start from (the purpose of reset.css and base.css).s

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