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Start your free trialKeith Corona
9,553 PointsUsing normalize.css when creating one's own website
Is the normalize.css file downloaded something that we should hang onto to continue using in outside work when building our own websites or does it change dependent on our needs for each individual project?
Alan McClenaghan
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 56,501 PointsI was just thinking how useful that would be and was about to post the question myself. Muchas gracias amigo!
5 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsI would not hold on to and reuse the same file over and over. Each time you start a new project, I'd go to the normalize website and fetch the latest release. Browsers, and specs change over time. Normalize will be updated to reflect those changes.
Alan McClenaghan
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 56,501 PointsDo you have a link to the normalise website you mentioned?
Alan McClenaghan
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 56,501 PointsThat's great, thanks! It will be very useful. As I was working through my track, I came across the very useful function of linking to google fonts. This made me think if it was actually possible to include an absolute link to the normalize.css file on the normalise website rather than a relative link to the website you are designing. That way the file would always be up-to-date rather than needing to updated regularly for every website. Is this practical or is it just asking for unforeseen problems to crop up?
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 PointsI would advise that for every project you use normalize.css or some other type of CSS reset. You can customize the file as you wish, but it's a very good tool to use so you don't to worry about too much browser conflicts when styling.
Keith Corona
9,553 Pointsthank you both, very helpful
Wilztan Andrew
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 4,979 Pointsso you mean that normalize.css is very common for WEb designer if they want to create a new WEB?
Jeffrey Fortune
5,365 PointsMost designers I know including myself also will include normalize.css into the CSS stack and include it in nearly every project.
Wilztan Andrew
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 4,979 PointsOK THX FOR THE SUGGESTION
Jeffrey Fortune
5,365 PointsJeffrey Fortune
5,365 PointsIf you know that a potential customer/viewer of the website might be using some clunky old version of IE then I would say add the file in. Adding the file in will not hurt the load times of your html document it takes milliseconds to fetch a css file. So if youβre worried about milliseconds then I would leave it out.