Question

Okay that’s probably not the best title, I know why we need browser resets: because browsers have different defaults set.

My question that was too long to put into a title is:

If everyone needs to use a reset stylesheet 90% of the time, why do browsers need to set default styles? We’re just going to remove them anyways, right?

Answer 1

Because certain rules make sense by default:

• Table cells have display:table-cell;
• <b> makes text bold, <i> makes text italic
• Paragraphs should have space in between them
• Unordered lists should be displayed as bulleted lists

The problem isn’t that browsers have defaults, it’s that the defaults are all different.