[whatwg] <reset> element?

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:26:53 +0100, Dean Edwards <dean at edwards.name> wrote:

> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> Dean Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>>  My thought is that this is a CSS issue and not a markup issue.

I agree with Anne; this is a CSS issue.

> It feels right to fix it with markup.

I completely disagree! :) It feels very wrong to fix a CSS issue with  
markup. For what other uses than styling does <reset> make sense? What  
semantic meaning does it give the content inside it?

A much better solution is a 'reset' property or property value in CSS that  
can reset different inherited and cascaded property values. I can picture  
something like this:

#box {
   color : red;
   text-align: center;
}

#box div {
   reset : color; /* resets the color to the browser's default value */
}

#box span {
   reset : *; /* resets all cascading and inherited properties */
}

I think this is actually something lacking in CSS and something that  
indeed should be proposed to the CSS WG.

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