What is the difference between Normalize css and Reset CSS

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I know what CSS Reset is  but recently I heard about this new thing called Normalize css  What is the difference between Normalize css and Reset CSS   What is the difference between normalizing CSS and resetting CSS   Is it just a new buzz word for the CSS Reset

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Normalize css is mainly a set of styles  based on what its author thought would look good  and make it look consistent across browsers  Reset basically strips styling from elements so you have more control over the styling of everything   I use both   Some styles from Reset  some from Normalize css  For example  from Normalize css  there s a style to make sure all input elements have the same font  which doesn t occur  between text inputs and textareas   Reset has no such style  so inputs have different fonts  which is not normally wanted   So bascially  using the two CSS files does a better job  Equalizing  everything     regards

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Well from its description it appears it tries to make the user agent s default style consistent across all browsers rather than stripping away all the default styling as a reset would      Preserves useful defaults  unlike many CSS resets

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This question has been answered already several times  I ll short summary for each of them  an example and insights as of September 2019    Normalize css - as the name suggests  it normalizes styles in the browsers for their user agents  i e  makes them the same across all browsers due to the reason by default they re slightly different    Example   lt h1 gt  tag inside  lt section gt  by default Google Chrome will make smaller than the  expected  size of  lt h1 gt  tag  Microsoft Edge on the other hand is making the  expected  size of  lt h1 gt  tag  Normalize css will make it consistent   Current status  the npm repository shows that normalize css package has currently more than 500k downloads per week  GitHub stars in the project of the repository are more than 36k    Reset CSS - as the name suggests  it resets all styles  i e  it removes all browser s user agent styles    Example  it would do something like that below   html  body  div  span       audio  video        margin  0       padding  0       border  0       font-size  100        font  inherit       vertical-align  baseline       Current status  it s much less popular than Normalize css  the reset-css package shows it s something around 26k downloads per week  GitHub stars are only 200  as it can be noticed from the project s repository

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The major difference is that    CSS resets aim to remove all built-in browser styling  Standard elements like H1-6  p  strong  em  et cetera end up looking exactly alike  having no decoration at all  You re then supposed to add all decoration yourself  Normalize CSS aims to make built-in browser styling consistent across browsers  Elements like H1-6 will appear bold  larger et cetera in a consistent way across browsers  You re then supposed to add only the difference in decoration your design needs    If your design a  follows common conventions for typography et cetera  and b  Normalize css works for your target audience  then using Normalize CSS instead of a CSS reset will make your own CSS smaller and faster to write

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resetting seems a necessity to meet custom design specifications  especially on complex  non-boilerplate type design  projects  It sounds as though normalizing is a good way to proceed with purely web programming in mind  but oftentimes websites are a marriage between web programming and UI UX design rules

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Sometimes  the best solution is to use both   Sometimes  it is to use neither   And sometimes  it is to use one or the other   If you want all the styles  including margin and padding reset across all browsers  use reset css  Then apply all decorations and stylings yourself   If you simply like the built-in stylings but want more cross-browser synchronicity i e  normalizations then use normalize css  But if you choose to use both reset css and normalize css  link the reset css stylesheet first and then the normalize css stylesheet  immediately  afterwards   Sometimes it s not always a matter of which is better  but when to use which one versus when to use both versus when to use neither   IMHO

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First reset css is the worst library you can use  because it removes the standard structure of HTML and displays everything you write just as text  after assigning the values of margin padding and other attributes to 0  So for example you will find that  lt H1 gt   will be the same as  lt H6 gt    On the other hand Normalize css uses the standard structure and also fixes almost all the errors existing in it  For example it fixes the problem with showing a form from one browser to another  Normalize fixes this by modifying this features so your elements will be shown the same on all browsers

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I work on normalize css   The main differences are    Normalize css preserves useful defaults rather than  unstyling  everything  For example  elements like sup or sub  just work  after including normalize css  and are actually made more robust  whereas they are visually indistinguishable from normal text after including reset css  So  normalize css does not impose a visual starting point  homogeny  upon you  This may not be to everyone s taste  The best thing to do is experiment with both and see which gels with your preferences  Normalize css corrects some common bugs that are out of scope for reset css  It has a wider scope than reset css  and also provides bug fixes for common problems like  display settings for HTML5 elements  the lack of font inheritance by form elements  correcting font-size rendering for pre  SVG overflow in IE9  and the button styling bug in iOS  Normalize css doesn t clutter your dev tools  A common irritation when using reset css is the large inheritance chain that is displayed in browser CSS debugging tools  This is not such an issue with normalize css because of the targeted stylings  Normalize css is more modular  The project is broken down into relatively independent sections  making it easy for you to potentially remove sections  like the form normalizations  if you know they will never be needed by your website  Normalize css has better documentation  The normalize css code is documented inline as well as more comprehensively in the GitHub Wiki  This means you can find out what each line of code is doing  why it was included  what the differences are between browsers  and more easily run your own tests  The project aims to help educate people on how browsers render elements by default  and make it easier for them to be involved in submitting improvements    I ve written in greater detail about this in an article about normalize css

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Normalize css  Every browser is coming with some default css styles that will  for example  add padding around a paragraph or  title If you add the normalize style sheet all those browser default rules will be reset so for this instance 0px padding on  tags Here is a couple of links for more details  https   necolas github io normalize css  http   nicolasgallagher com about-normalize-css

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