Nice to see an update !
What about new elements coming with HTML5 and the new default behaviours of the browsers ? I’m thinking of the way webkit styles the new “search” types of inputs for example.
You can find some infos here : http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/cross-browser-html5-placeholder-text. It’s not the main subject but is pointed out.

See you !

It’s detailed here, with a CSS workaround:

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/issues/detail?id=307

Steve, ems are no more modern than percentages, nor vice versa—the two are interchangeable (per the spec, anyway). I don’t really even have a preference between the two. I simply must’ve been in a percentage mood the day I wrote that declaration.

Norman (and Clair), that’s exactly what the font: inherit is for. The only reason the original reset didn’t do that was that I couldn’t do it then (since inherit support was more limited) without breaking the normal operation of inheritance. You might usually want emphasis elements italic and strong-emphasis elements bold, but similarly you could argue that since one usually wants h1s to be big, the font size shouldn’t be reset either.

The point of a reset is to zero out as much as possible, and now it’s more possible to zero out that sort of typographical default. That said, the point of a reset is also to serve as a starting point for your own baseline styles, so if you dislike that declaration, take it out or otherwise adapt the styles to your personal liking. In the meantime, you might think about why those elements have their usual defaults, and try to imagine circumstances in which you might want to do something different.

I’m asking myself the same thing as Clair wrote… what’s font: inherit; for?
It was an ugly surprise not having the <strong>s bolded and the <em>s italic when using this new Reset.css version

1. I avoid form elements like inputs for very specific reasons (search the site for “Reset Reasoning” and “Formal Weirdness”).
2. I don’t impose a font size other than the browser default because that presumes that I know the best way to size fonts for anyone who might use the reset, and I don’t.
3. I definitely don’t touch hyperlink underlining because that’s one of the last sacred user settings, as far as I’m concerned. I firmly believe that whether they’re underlined or not should always be up to the user, not the author.
4. And considering that one of the primary changes of Reset v2.0 was to stop removing outlines from hyperlinks when people didn’t change my base reset styles, I’m very definitely not adding that back in.

For font-size: 62.5% to work font-size: 100%; and font-size: inherit; should be removed from… “global” reset at the top.

I always use ems for font-size so i removed it from reset and it works good.

And at the end, at a { text-decoration: none; } you can add outline: 0; so you wont have that outline browsers when you click a link. Some people use keyboards to navigate through links so it ok to left outline for them, but i remove outline on links… it joust looks ugly in nice web application.

Here is v2:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4505125/resetv2.css

Hope you will implement some of this code!
Thanks for the css reset!

1. input should be included in all elements reset so it has padding: 0, margin: 0 etc. If you dont include input border-radius wont work, and if you set input as fixed width and height it wont be pixel perfect! It will have some padding or margin depending on the browser!

2. Add font-size: 62.5% to body tag! After that you can use ems to define font-size. 1em = 10px! This is nice if you prefer ems over px to define font-size, and I believe ems should be used to set font-size.

3. Add a { text-decoration: none; } I dont use text-decoration that much so… well this last one could stay but I like it better if links dont have text-decoration “out of the box”.

Here is my modified css reset:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4505125/reset.css

What do you guys think about this improvements?
And what about input? Did you have any problems with input?
I think input should have reset with other elements.

I’ve noticed that the new font: inherit line removes boldness from the <strong> tag – I’m wondering what your reasons behind it are? (I know the tag isn’t supposed to be presentational, but wouldn’t you want strong text to be bold in most cases?)

The last CSS reset had this in the comments:
/* tables still need ‘cellspacing=”0″‘ in the markup */

But now it’s gone!

Do we no longer need to add cellspacing=”0″ into the markup?