demonhale — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:11:20 +0000

I usually apply reset margins and paddings on nested elements...

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:06:58 +0000

Megan;217457 wrote: But then you have to go and reset all the margins and padding on everything! So there's a trade-off. Sometimes the defaults can be really annoying (such as in the case of lists), sometimes they're good enough spacing for basic elements (such as paragraphs and headings). I usually just make some adjustments to the defaults for commone elements. Thats' worked well so far for me but it does get a bit messy sometime. I don't consider myself to be a total control freak though!

Yes, it might be annoying at first, but you can write up a basic CSS sheet that overrides all defaults and use it for everything. Do it once and be cross-browser compatible (or at least one step closer) forever.

Megan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:46:10 +0000

But then you have to go and reset all the margins and padding on everything! So there's a trade-off. Sometimes the defaults can be really annoying (such as in the case of lists), sometimes they're good enough spacing for basic elements (such as paragraphs and headings). I usually just make some adjustments to the defaults for commone elements. Thats' worked well so far for me but it does get a bit messy sometime. I don't consider myself to be a total control freak though!

jesse1 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:19:56 +0000

This helps some of my sites a lot, especially if I am using a 100% width table and want to have the table right up against the left hand side of the page.

Not sure if it is always neccessary...Just depends on how you want your website to look.

Personally I like using these attributes.