It helps a lot. Thank you! I'd be interested in hearing other techniques out there, so please chime in if you like.
Spell -----Original Message----- From: James Leslie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:43 PM To: Spellacy, Michael Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: RE: [css-d] Margin & Padding: Best Practices I was just wondering what the best practice is for handling default user-agent margin and padding? For more control over my layout I suppose I could set a universal selector to eliminate the default stuff (* {margin: 0; padding: 0;))and then override it where I need to further on in the document, but killing those property values seems instinctively wrong to me. I'm worried about eliminating it in places where it could be useful by default (like on block-level elements such as p, ul, ol, etc.). Should I resort to such trickery, or should I be setting margin and padding to zero on all individual rules that do not need a specific margin or padding value? ------- I don't think there is a 'right' answer here, more down to personal choice. I tend to use the following at the start of a css doc: body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, ul, ol, li, table, tr, th, td, form { margin 0; padding 0; border 0; list-style none; font-size 100%; font-weight normal; } img{ border:0: } This deals with all the elements that you want to get rid of margins/padding/etc on without adversely effecting form elements in the way that the universal selector does. Then I add margins to the elements that need them as I use them. It works for me anyway, but I am sure others will do things differently, hope that helps, James ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
