Building a CSS Foundation with YUI Reset

Test page with YUI Reset applied

YUI Reset removes and normalizes the presentation of HTML elements. The process creates a level playing field upon which to author CSS.

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This is 3rd level heading

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This is 5th level heading

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Basic block level elements

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This holds an address. Block level, but without margin or padding because they're often stacked.

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The following contains address information about the author, in an address element.

Lists

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This is a paragraph before a numbered list (ol). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can't guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a "list header".

  1. One.
  2. Two.
  3. Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that if items are short, lists look better if they are compactly presented, whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.
  4. Four. This is the last item in this list. Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.
  5. Five
  6. Six
  7. Seven
  8. Eight
  9. Nine
  10. Ten

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Apple
is a fruit.
Banana
Is also a fruit.
Tomato
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Text-level markup

Some of the elements tested above are typically displayed in a monospace font, often using the same presentation for all of them. This tests whether that is the case on your browser:

Links

Tables

The following table has a caption. The first row and the first column contain table header cells only; other cells are data cells.

Caption: Sample table: Areas of the Nordic countries, in sq km
Country Total area Land area
Denmark 43,070 42,370
Finland 337,030 305,470
Iceland 103,000 100,250
Norway 324,220 307,860
Sweden 449,964 410,928

Forms

The following two radio buttons are inside fieldset element with a legend:

Legend
Check those that apply

This next bit shows that PREformatted text is working.

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