We not too long ago talked with Elad Shechter on his new CSS reset, and shortly after that Josh Comeau blogged his.
We’re in one thing of a brand new period of CSS resets the place… you form of don’t want one? There isn’t that many main variations between browsers on default styling, and by the point you’re off and operating styling stuff, you’ve in all probability steamrolled issues into place. And so maybe “fashionable” CSS resets are extra of a set of opinionated default kinds that do helpful issues that you really want on all of your new tasks as a result of, nicely, that’s the way you roll.
Wanting by means of Josh’s selections, that’s what it looks as if to me: a set of issues that aren’t significantly opinionated about design, however help the design by being issues that just about any undertaking will need.
I’m gonna undergo it and toss out 🔥 flamin’ sizzling opinions.
*, *::earlier than, *::after {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Heck sure. We used to contemplate this a world vacation ’spherical right here. Though, with increasingly format being dealt with by grid and flexbox, I’m feeling like that is barely much less helpful lately. Whenever you’re establishing a format with fr models and flexin’ stuff, the box-sizing mannequin doesn’t come into play all that a lot, even when padding and border are concerned. However hey, I nonetheless desire it to be in place. I do assume if it goes right into a CSS reset it ought to use the inheritance mannequin although, because it’s simpler to undo on a part that manner.
* {
margin: 0;
}
That is mainly why the CSS-Methods emblem “star” exists. I used to like this little snippet in my CSS resets. There was a interval the place it began to really feel heavy-handed, however I believe I’m again to liking it. I like how specific you need to be when making use of any margin in any respect. Personally, I’d rock padding: 0; too, as record parts are inclined to have some padding pushing them round. For those who’re nuking spacing stuff, might as nicely nuke all of it.
html, physique {
peak: 100%;
}
Most likely a very good plan. Josh says “Permit percentage-based heights within the utility,” which I can’t say comes up a lot in my day-today, however what it does is stuff just like the physique background not filling the area the way in which you would possibly count on it to.
Too unhealthy physique { peak: 100vh; } isn’t sufficient right here, however I really feel like that’s not as dependable for some motive I can’t consider proper now. Perhaps one thing to do with the footer navigation in iOS Safari?
physique {
line-height: 1.5;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
I can’t get into the -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; factor. I believe it tends to make kind dramatically skinny and I don’t adore it. I don’t thoughts it as a instrument, however I wouldn’t globally apply it on all my tasks.
I additionally typically wish to put world typographic sizing stuff on the html selector as a substitute, simply because the “root” a part of rem implies the <html> aspect — not the <physique> — and I like sizing stuff in rem after which adjusting the basis font-size on the root degree in media queries.
That 1.5 worth seems like a very good default line-height (extra of a 1.4 man myself, however I’d fairly go up than down). However as quickly because it’s set, I really feel magnetically pulled into decreasing it for heading parts the place it’s at all times an excessive amount of. That would occur through h1, h2, h3 kinda selectors (perhaps h4–h6 don’t want it), however Josh has some CSS trickery at work with this snippet that didn’t make it into the ultimate reset:
* {
line-height: calc(1em + 0.5rem);
}
That’s intelligent in how the 0.5rem goes a good distance for small kind, however isn’t as massive of an affect for big kind. I might see attempting that on a greenfield undertaking. Prior artwork right here is by Jesús Ricarte in “Utilizing calc to determine optimum line-height.”
img, image, video, canvas, svg {
show: block;
max-width: 100%;
}
Good transfer for a CSS reset. The block show kind there prevents these annoying line-height gaps that at all times kill me. And also you nearly by no means need any of those media blocks to be wider than the father or mother. I in some way don’t assume image is critical, although, because it’s probably not a style-able block? Might be incorrect. I’d in all probability toss iframe and object in there as nicely.
p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
Good transfer for certain. It’s unhealthy information when a protracted phrase (like a URL) forces a component broad and borks a format. I are inclined to chuck this on one thing — like article or .text-content or one thing — and let it cascade into that complete space (which might additionally catch textual content that occurs to be contained in an improper aspect), however I don’t thoughts seeing it on particular textual content parts.
If doing that, you in all probability wanna chuck li, dl, dt, blockquote on that chain. Regardless of having tried to analysis this a number of instances (right here’s a playground), I nonetheless don’t 100% know what the correct cocktail of line-wrapping properties is finest to make use of. There’s word-break: break-word; that I believe is mainly the identical factor. And I believe it’s typically finest to make use of hyphens: auto; too… proper??
#root, #__next {
isolation: isolate;
}
I don’t fairly perceive what’s taking place right here. I get that this can be a React/Subsequent factor the place you mount the app to those roots, and I get that it makes a stacking context, I simply don’t get why it’s particularly helpful to have that stacking context at this degree. On the identical time, I additionally don’t see any explicit drawback with it.
All in all — fairly cool! I at all times take pleasure in seeing what different individuals use (and go as far as to counsel) for CSS resets.
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