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Asked: 2026-05-16T05:43:47+00:00

So far, including a CSS reset was a standard step for me at the

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So far, including a CSS reset was a standard step for me at the very beginning of web page designing.

I heard once the opinion that this is bad; however I had no opportunity to ask the guy who said that for the reasons.

Now I’d like to know what drawbacks can you specify.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using a CSS reset means you, in many cases, will have many rules that are not necessary. You will first set body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } in reset.css and then set body { margin: 0 auto; padding: 20px; } in style.css or something, when only specifying the latter would give the same result. And will you really use all those obscure elements that are included in the reset?

    What I sometimes do is that I add a reset.css, start coding, and then I check my page in Dragonfly or Firebug and there I will see which rules from reset.css are overridden. Those I can remove from reset.css, and in the end the file is likely to be very small or empty.

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