[WSG] Zeroing default padding/margin

[Nick Lo]

I was just reading the article excerpted below and was curious as to 
how many on the list have used this technique of initially setting all 
padding and margins to 0 and if so how successful was it?

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"A big part of dealing with cross-browser differences is accounting for 
the default property values of elements in each browser; namely padding 
and margin. I use the following declaration in every new site I design; 
it has saved me many hours of nitpicking.

* {
   padding:0;
   margin:0;
}
It doesn’t seem like much at first, but wait till you look at your 
mildly styled form in 11 browsers to find the positioning identical in 
all of them; or your button-style lists are perfect the first time, 
every time."

http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/07/css-negotiation/
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Thanks,
Nick
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