♿️ A minimal, accessible, & unopinionated CSS reset that correctly accounts for HTML5 elements

⚙️ Features

👌 Minimal

• No superfluous or redundant styles; nothing is included without an explanation in comments.
• Code copied from other resets and browser default stylesheets is audited.
• Main file is minified; only 1.2kb total size uncompressed.

♿️ Accessible

• Does not tamper with the natural accessibility of semantic HTML.
• Does not remove, or edit in any way, default browser focus state styles.
  • ⚠️ You should never remove/hide/suppress the default :focus outline without adding custom styles in place of it!
• Sets font-size to 100% and includes a note on why this is important.
• Sets default line-height on body and includes a note (and link) on why this is important.
• Ensures that [hidden] attribute styles are honored.
• Correctly hides elements using display: none, as this also removes them from the accessibility tree.
• Does not prevent a user from zooming.

🤫 Unopinionated

• Intended to reset the styles for all HTML Elements, NOT to add a layer of opinionated/default styles.
• Meant to have a near-blank-slate effect.
  • 📝 NOTE: There are a few exceptions included that are restyled after resetting all elements.

📱 Modern

• Correctly resets new HTML5 elements for custom styling, like <button> and <select>.
• Correctly styles multimedia elements to reduce the likelihood of unintended side-scroll.
• Ensures a pointer cursor shows on all appropriate interactive elements.
• Includes modern browser support (see below).

🏗 Browser Support

The styles in this project are compiled using rules that support the last 2 versions, and any version with coverage greater than 1%, of all modern browsers supported by Browserslist.

> 1%
last 2 versions

😞 Why

After years of creating a custom _reset.scss file on top of Reset CSS and Normalize, I decided to research what other options are available… surely there has to be a minimal, accessible, unopinionated, modern alternative? And here enters my disappointment - while there are some notable newer options, I couldn’t find anything that ticked all the above boxes. So here is my best attempt at creating a stylesheet that does so.

⤵️ Install

With NPM:

$ npm i css-init

With Yarn:

$ yarn add css-init

Download

• Expanded css stylesheet
• Minified css stylesheet

🛠 Usage

📝 NOTE: Replace “..node-modules” below with the path to your /node_modules/ directory, or in your desired location.

HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="..node-modules/css-init/dist/init.min.css">

SCSS:

@import '..node-modules/css-init/src/init.scss';

CSS:

@import '..node-modules/css-init/dist/init.min.css';

Via webpack and css-loader:

import 'css-init';

💣 Testing

There is an included elements.html file that acts as an example/test page. You can load this file locally in any browser to see how all HTML elements will look after the css-init styles are loaded.

👥 GitHub

• https://github.com/sir-sharkey/css-init

✏️ Contributing

This project is open-source, and can only get better the more people use it and contribute to it (code contributions and issues/bugs/ideas are all encouraged).

❤️ Feedback is welcome!

To submit any issues, bugs, or ideas for improvement please open a new issue on GitHub.

📄 License

MIT