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jordan Buckhalt
jordan Buckhalt
1,606 Points
Posted by jordan Buckhalt
jordan Buckhalt
1,606 Points

Normalize.css

It could be that I'm not far enough into the program to realize this is a trivial question, but is having a normalized css file something that you should always have? Or is it just a file to get started with because we haven't learned css yet?

1 Answer

Christoph Walpert
Christoph Walpert
3,752 Points
Christoph Walpert
Christoph Walpert
3,752 Points

Hey :) So they way I understood it: It is allways good to have a normalize.css, unless you are using frameworks, like Bootstrap and so on. You can imagine it like a reset to all the styles that the browser has predefined. So when you apply it, you can be assured that the custom styles you build, will look the same in all browsers. Therefore I would allways use it, since it is easy to implement and there is really no harm in including it. Also Frameworks like Bootstrap have it built in allready.

jordan Buckhalt
jordan Buckhalt
1,606 Points
jordan Buckhalt
jordan Buckhalt
1,606 Points

Thanks for the in-depth answer Christoph! Because we kinda just skipped over it in the tutorial I was curious if that was something we shouldn't even think about, but it's good to know that it's an easy to implement standard that we don't have to create from scratch. Especially since the more I learn, the more in-depth I realize coding can be. So fascinating!