Are there any lists of default CSS stylesheets for different browsers? (browser stylesheets in tabular form)
I want to know the default font of text areas across all browsers for future reference.
Not tabular, but the source CSS may be helpful if you're looking for something specific:
Firefox default HTML stylesheet
WebKit default HTML stylesheet
You're on your own with IE and Opera though.
I suspect this is something of a moving target for all the browsers, but there is a default style sheet for HTML 4 as defined by the W3C.
There probably is a list, this is why we use CSS Resets however.
Eric Meyer's Reset
Yahoo's Reset
CSS class have compiled a list of CSS2.1 User Agent Style Sheet Defaults. Some links at the bottom of that page as well.
You cannot possibly know all defaults for all configurations of all browsers into the future.
The way people get around this is to start their CSS by resetting everything to known values. Here's an example from one of the main CSS experts: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
There was some discussion and testing done on www-style not too long ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0124.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/att-0124/defaultstyles.htm
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I'm debugging a style problem in Internet Explorer 9.
It look's like ie9 doesn't apply all style rules defined in my css file. As I look in the network tab of Developer Tools, I see for example the '.mobileMenu' class present.
But the style is not applied to the element, if I use 'Inspect element', the browser simply doesn't know about any related style rules. A large portion of the css file (but not all of it) is simply ignored by ie9.
It works in Chrome, Firefox and IE 10. There are a couple of CSS validation errors, but none that look really troubling.
My guess, which is a guess, is that perhaps some stylesheet property (CSS3?) is causing ie9 to stop rendering and skip the rest of the file. Is that possible?
Anyone any experience?
Thanks !
In the end, it had nothing to do with CSS3.
Ie9 did stop rendering, not because of anything in the css file itself, but because the style sheet was to large..
According to Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/05/14/10164546.aspx
We split the Style Sheet into two seperate files and the problem was resolved.
Some CSS3 properties are not accepted by IE9. See this page for which browsers support which properties.
If the CSS3 properties are not support by IE9, you can try using a plugin like:CSS3PIE
I'm working on a browser extension that adds it's UI to the pages DOM. On some pages I have the problem certain styles affect my UI. To counter this I keep my UI underneath a common root which resets most of the styles to the default value.
Sometimes I missed things which causes visual glitches in my UI. (i.e. the pages CSS file sets form { width: 80%; } so I need to add form { width: auto; } to my reset styles.
Is there a collection of styles that reset every CSS attribute to the value that is declared as default by the standard for every element?
I have come across the same problem. The usual CSS normalizers listed by the other answers does not answer the question because it is made to cancel the differences across the browser's default styles.
In the context of an extension, I needed to cancel every specific style that may exist on a random website.
I have come across this solution (I am not sure if it was possible at the time of the question, 7 years ago).
.your-container-class,
.your-container-class *,
.your-container-class *::before,
.your-container-class *::after {
all: initial;
}
So far it seems to achieve the goal by removing the differences across websites. The downside is that it resets even some default styles (ol, ul, li not behaving like lists for example).
Eric Meyer’s “Reset CSS” 2.0
(the original one)
HTML5 Doctor CSS Reset
(extends the Eric Meyer's one to improve HTML5 tags reset)
Yahoo! (YUI 3) Reset CSS
(based on Normalize.css)
Universal Selector ‘*’ Reset
Normalize.css 1.0 2.1.3
("…as used by Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, YUI 3, Pure, TweetDeck, Soundcloud, Medium, NASA, GOV.UK, Guardian, Rdio, Favstar, iA, and many others.")
There are others, but this were (and still are) the 2012’s most popular CSS Reset scripts.
I recommend using a quick Google search to find something like so: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
You can implement the reset in as-is and then if any problems arise down the road, simply add to it as needed.
Be aware that some pre-made CSS resets require a shout-out to using them.
Yes, absolutely.
There are two schools of thought to this. One is the zeroing style reset sheets, which basically remove all margin, padding and other such settings from the css. A good example of this is Eric Meyer's Reset CSS
The other approach is to set everything to roughly what you'd sensibly expect it to be, setting a reasonably looking margin to paragraphs and headings, indenting lists etc. A good example of this is Normalize.css
Some browsers also support the initial value, which sets the value of a property back to what it intially was. It's not widely supported enough to use in production, IMO.
Html5 boilerplate has an normalize.css which sets al lot of css styles to a default.
http://html5boilerplate.com/
As you are applying your styles to different pages with different unique styles, its hard to say if you will get success on removing all styles from all pages with some CSS reset.
But maybe these can help:
Normalize.css (used by many CSS frameworks)
CSS Reset by Meyer
Can you use the browser specific prefix in front of all standard tags?
e.g.
#div{
padding:20px;
-moz-padding-bottom:10px;
}
is the above valid CSS for ensuring Firefox has a different bottom padding to all other browsers?
No, it's not a prefix for targetting a browser, it's a prefix that is used for specific non-standard properties like -moz-opacity or -moz-padding-start. It's not available for the standard properties.
First, no, there isn't a prefix for things that are standardized, since they're the same property cross-browser (or should be, don't take this for granted in IE).
Instead of what you're after with this prefix, I'd instead look at a completely different approach...taking out the differences in rendering, instead of trying to fix them, at least as many as possible.
Take a look at a CSS reset stylesheet, to normalize the padding and such across browsers, then look at fixing any remaining quirks.
You can always do it, but the style will be ignored by browsers who don't understand it and the CSS won't pass CSS Validation.
This might be of interest.
-webkit-text-stroke
Works in Firefox browsers as well.
different css reset for every browser ,is this a good idea to get maximum compatibility with less efforts?
I found this on searching google http://www.iecss.com/
The UA Style Sheet is a simple set of
css styles that each web browser uses
before any other css styles are
applied.
You don't need a different CSS reset for every browser; one is enough. I personally like this one.
The point of global CSS reset is that you don't get the differences that different browsers have. Having a different CSS reset for each browser would kind of destroy the point.
If you could better/perfect your layout with different css style sheets, it is of course good idea. However you need to use sort of conditional statements (IE for example) to load a style sheet only for specific browsers in order to make sure that no other styles are loaded which may not be needed.
Except for the IE, most styles work across all browsers.
why would you want a different set of styles applied to each browser in the first place? all you need is a good reset (like meyer's as mentioned by Andreas Bonini) css and separate stylesheets to handle IE hacks.
CSS Reset is used to just remove any differences between different browser layout defaults.
so,i t doesn't make sense to use different resets per browser.
The popular resets are
1. Eric Meyer's CSS Reset http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
2. YIU CSS Reset http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
Use whatever you feel suits you. But surely don't use diff. resets per browser.
Are there any lists of default CSS stylesheets for different browsers? (browser stylesheets in tabular form)
I want to know the default font of text areas across all browsers for future reference.
Not tabular, but the source CSS may be helpful if you're looking for something specific:
Firefox default HTML stylesheet
WebKit default HTML stylesheet
You're on your own with IE and Opera though.
I suspect this is something of a moving target for all the browsers, but there is a default style sheet for HTML 4 as defined by the W3C.
There probably is a list, this is why we use CSS Resets however.
Eric Meyer's Reset
Yahoo's Reset
CSS class have compiled a list of CSS2.1 User Agent Style Sheet Defaults. Some links at the bottom of that page as well.
You cannot possibly know all defaults for all configurations of all browsers into the future.
The way people get around this is to start their CSS by resetting everything to known values. Here's an example from one of the main CSS experts: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
There was some discussion and testing done on www-style not too long ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0124.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/att-0124/defaultstyles.htm