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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Include External CSS

Posted by ericschekel
ericschekel
2,965 Points

Normalize.css which one do I use for future websites?

There are several Normalize.css files on the net. I am not sure what the differences are and which one to use for future websites that I design. I also need to know how often I would need to update it for changes made to the file?

2 Answers

Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points
Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points

Hey Eric,

As far as I'm aware, there's only one Normalize.css out there. At least there's only one worth using, I guess. And that's this one, by Nicolas Gallagher.

There are however multiple reset.css files out there. Those are different from Normalize.css as well as different from each other. There's Eric Meyer's "Reset CSS" 2.0, HTML5 Doctor Reset, and Yahoo's YUI 3 Reset, to name a few of the more popular ones.

Personally, I like using Normalize.css for projects. But if I need a quick reset I'll just use the universal selector in CSS to reset margin and padding:

* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}