CSS reset that sets everything to default values

Question

I\'m working on a browser extension that adds it\'s UI to the pages DOM. On some pages I have the problem certain styles affect my UI. To counter this I keep my UI underneat

Answer 1

Yes, absolutely.

There are two schools of thought to this. One is the zeroing style reset sheets, which basically remove all margin, padding and other such settings from the css. A good example of this is Eric Meyer's Reset CSS

The other approach is to set everything to roughly what you'd sensibly expect it to be, setting a reasonably looking margin to paragraphs and headings, indenting lists etc. A good example of this is Normalize.css

Some browsers also support the initial value, which sets the value of a property back to what it intially was. It's not widely supported enough to use in production, IMO.