[whatwg] Default (informal) Style Sheet

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:54:04 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>  
wrote:

> The default style of <hr>, <p>, <table>, et cetera.

Speaking of <hr>, having a default style for it would increase  
interoperability (if only in the presentation layer) a great deal.  
Defining what a <hr> *is* in terms of CSS would help people from having to  
style it like this:

hr {
   border: none;
   background-color: #fff;
   color: #fff;
   line-height: 0;
   height: 0;
   padding: 0;
   margin: 0;
}

and *still* don't get anything remotely similar from any of the 4 major  
browsers. Is an <hr> a border? A block-level element with a background  
color? How do you change that color? How do you adjust its height? Its  
margins?

> Not all authors will use a 'CSS zapper' (whatever it is). They will  
> still expect the same results across user agents.

Thanks for saying that for me. I've never used a "CSS zapper" and I doubt  
I ever will. I usually adjust paddings and margins to 0 on all elements,  
but that's about it.

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