Exposing Reset Style Sheets

Published on May 15, 2011, filed under tools, development, css. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)

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Messing around a bit I wrote a little Chrome extension to display reset style sheets. I liked the idea of learning when a website is taking a styling detour. The extension’s source code—essentially a tiny style sheet that assumes that the more common resets have not been renamed—is open and available on GitHub Codeberg.

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