@substrate-system/css-normalize
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Normalize/reset CSS
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CSS normalize
Reset/normalize styles for a nice blank slate.
See joshcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset
These days, browsers don't have massive discrepancies when it comes to layout or spacing. By and large, browsers implement the CSS specification faithfully, and things behave as you'd expect.
Featuring:
box-sizing: border-box;
-- Sizes based onbarder-box
, notcontent-box
.margin: 0
-- Remove default margin. Add margins as needed in application CSS.line-height: calc(2px + 2ex + 2px);
-- Dyslexia friendly line height.
[!NOTE]
You may want to override theline-height
for headings in your application CSS. See this article for more info aboutline-height
.
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-- Chrome and Safari still use subpixel antialiasing by default, which is bad on high DPI screens.- Use block display by default for media tags, like
img
andvideo
. - Inherit fonts for form controls
font
is a rarely-used shorthand that sets a bunch of font-related properties, likefont-size
,font-weight
, andfont-family
.
- Avoid text overflows -- Permission to use hard wraps when no soft wrap opportunties can be found
- Improve line wrapping -- widows and orphans
- Root stacking context -- OPTIONAL -- Create a new stacking context without needing to set a
z-index
. See What The Heck, z-index??
bonus
install
npm i -S @substrate-system/css-normalize
Use
bundler
If you are a bundling your CSS, e.g. with vite, just import from this module in your javascript:
import '@susbtrate-system/css-normalize'
Or import the minified CSS:
import '@substrate-system/css-normalize/min'
pre-bundled
This package includes minified CSS also.
- Copy the CSS so it is accessible to your web server. The minified file is at
dist/index.min.css
.
cp node_modules/@substrate-system/css-normalize/dist/index.min.css ./public/normalize.css
- Add a link in your HTML.
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/normalize.css">
</head>
<!-- ... -->