Gabriele Romanato wrote:
> In this case, resets should be rewritten in a way that allows you to
> leave some browser's default styles intact or at least not
> overwritten. Consider this:
>
> b, i {
> font-style: normal;
> font-weight: normal;
> }
>
> If you forget to redefine your styles, a client of yours might call
> you just to say that all of its MS Word contents inserted in the CMS
> editor look like plain text without any kind of basic formatting (bold
> and italic).
I do not understand. Why might a CSS-reset stylesheet want to set
font style and weight to normal for the <b> and <i> elements ?
That is not a "reset" (normalising everything to a common
intelligent default) but more of an aberation. I have little use
for CSS-resets myself, but the particular example you adduce seems
perverse as best. What Eric actually proposes for the <b> and <i>
elements (along with most others) is :
> {
> margin: 0;
> padding: 0;
> border: 0;
> font-size: 100%;
> font: inherit;
> vertical-align: baseline;
> }
i.e., leave font-weight and style to the browser, which can be relied
on to do the intelligent thing.
Philip Taylor
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