This CSS file provides a modern "normalize" stylesheet for current web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and their recent versions). It establishes a consistent styling baseline, leveraging improved browser defaults and modern web development best practices.
This normalize is based on these principles:
- Modern Browsers: Targets up-to-date browsers, avoiding extensive resets for outdated ones.
- Minimal Reset: Focuses on smoothing inconsistencies and providing sensible defaults, rather than aggressive resets.
- Embrace Modern Defaults: Retains reasonable browser defaults, enhancing and standardizing rather than stripping everything away.
- Accessibility Focused: Prioritizes accessibility with rules for text readability (
line-height), user-friendly focus indicators (:focus-visible), improved underline rendering (text-decoration-skip-ink: auto), and better word wrapping (overflow-wrap: break-word). box-sizing: border-box: Usesbox-sizing: border-boxfor predictable layout management.- System Font Stack: Employs a system font stack (
system-ui, ...) for performance and a native look. - Font Smoothing: Includes
-webkit-font-smoothingand-moz-osx-font-smoothingfor enhanced text rendering. - Modern Form Styling: Resets form elements (
appearance: none, etc.) for consistent and modern UI patterns. - Clear Code: Organized into logical sections with comments for readability and maintainability.
The CSS is organized into these sections:
- Document: Base styles for
htmlandbody(box-sizing,line-height, scroll behavior, font stack, font smoothing). - Typography: Styles for headings, paragraphs, text elements, and quotes.
- Embedded Content: Styles for
img,figure, andfigcaption. - Forms: Resets and styles for form elements.
- Interactive: Styles for interactive elements (
details,summary,:focus-visible). - Accessibility: Rules for text wrapping and underline rendering.
- Lists: Resets list styles (
ul,ol,li). - Tables: Basic table styling.
- SVG and Canvas: Styles for
canvas. - Interactive: Cursors: Sets
cursor: pointeron interactive elements. - Selection: Default text selection colors.
- Download/Copy: Download
normalize-enhanced.cssor copy the code. - Include in HTML: Link
normalize-enhanced.cssas the first stylesheet in your<head>, before custom stylesheets.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Your Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/normalize-enhanced.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>[content goes here]</body>
</html>Customize typography, colors, focus styles, margins, padding, and form element styling in your own stylesheets. Direct modification of normalize-enhanced.css is not recommended.
This normalize is inspired by and incorporates best practices from:
- normalize.css (https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/)
- sanitize.css (https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css)
- reboot.css (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/scss/_reboot.scss)
It also draws from the broader concept of CSS normalization and modern CSS best practices (box-sizing: border-box, system font stacks, :focus-visible, accessibility).
This normalize is a contemporary interpretation of normalization for modern browsers.
Disclaimer: Test your websites across target browsers. CSS normalization is a starting point; further project-specific styling is always required.