Get back default properties after applying a global CSS reset

Question

Some legacy code that I have to build upon, really makes me feel the cons of global CSS reset.

I have the old foo.css that starts with

Answer 1

I would think * {margin: auto} would reset margin (or h1 {margin: auto} if only that element is being reset.), but this will not work for padding. Technically, the spec is for padding to be zero already, however, if a browser implements it otherwise, I don't think there would be a way to reset it.