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Creating Sane CSS defaults

 

Both Eric Meyer's Reset and Normalize.css are comprehensive solutions to provide a baseline for CSS development.

Can I build a set of defaults that make sense for my projects on top of these resets? what shape would this set of defaults take?

Ever since I decided to move this blog to Eleventy, I've been thinking about moving the CSS to use @CSS Layers. This would make it easier to organize the stylesheet.

Getting started #

We'll use Normalize as our base layer and leverage the fact that you can import stylesheets directly to a layer

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