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Mastering CSS
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In the last section, you learned about the power of a good text editor. In this section, we're going to use that text editor to explore something called a CSS reset. There's a lot of pieces to starting a website that need to be in place and are typically part of your website boilerplate. I call these pieces your "base layer". A big part of this base layer is the CSS reset. A reset allows you to eliminate browser inconsistencies with regard to default browser styling and eliminate all default browser styles in general. It allows you to more easily provide your handcrafted styles using CSS. In this section, we're going to first load in a CSS reset, then examine that reset and see what it's doing. Finally, we'll add to and customize the reset to fit our needs.
There are a few different resets to choose from, but I've been hooked to the CSS guru Eric Meyer's reset. Let's go grab it from meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/:
So, scroll down a little bit to...