[thelist] CSS again: suspected IE funkiness on inline UL

[Toby]

It only resets the margin, padding and border for every default html element
and I agree on a built site this would just give you a headache. 

But to start from scratch I feel it is essential. If you don’t, you will
find yourself adding special rules for different browsers. As by default (as
we all know) different browsers have different default css for html
elements.

I also feel the layout looking to be achieved would be fine starting from
this point. But I did do it a bit messy mixing em and px values... still not
sure which ones to use myself :¬] 

Nice one with the link, very good!

Essentially tho, to fix your problems in IE, you need to start with a clean
commented css document, or you are just stabbing in the dark.

Toby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
> bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of ben morrison
> Sent: 19 December 2006 12:48
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS again: suspected IE funkiness on inline UL
> 
> On 12/19/06, Toby <toby at creativefibre.co.uk> wrote:
> > http://www.intranetintelligence.com/ii/meyertab.asp
> >
> > Hmm I have had a look at this and you are missing some fundamental parts
> for
> > this to be maintainable, for starters you need to comment it and
> structure
> > it better, for yourself and so that other people can look at it.
> >
> > Can I recommend you remove all styling and place the following rule at
> the
> > top of your page:
> >
> > * {margin: 0em; padding: 0em; border: none 0px #fff;}
> >
> > This clears most of the browser funkyness until you get to forms.
> >
> > Then...
> >
> > html, body{
> >   font: ;
> >   color: ;
> >   background: ;
> > }
> >
> > Now that clears up the rest of your css document a lot. Setting a
> standard
> > for the presentation.
> >
> > After this most people would then style the elements you will be using
> in
> > the html such as h1/p/ul/li/ as well as some class's which are likely to
> use
> > often.
> 
> I would be very wary of resetting these values unless you know exactly
> what you are doing and the consequences that apply, YES, resetting is
> fantastic as it creates a cross browser default, but it also adds in
> confusion for first time users or new CSS users.
> 
> One of the early posts about it is here - read the commments:
> 
> http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/19/global-ws-reset/
> 
> ben
> 
> 
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