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Default Style Sheet for HTML Elements

Sandeep Kumar Mishra
Sandeep Kumar Mishra
in Posts > Tech
February 11, 2013
5 minutes read
Default Style Sheet for HTML Elements

Below is complete CSS of each element which can help you to understand the default behavior of elements when there are no CSS Rules applied on them.

html, address,
blockquote,
body, dd, div,
dl, dt, fieldset, form,
frame, frameset,
h1, h2, h3, h4,
h5, h6, noframes,
ol, p, ul, center,
dir, hr, menu, pre { display: block; unicode-bidi: embed }
li { display: list-item }
head { display: none }
table { display: table }
tr { display: table-row }
thead { display: table-header-group }
tbody { display: table-row-group }
tfoot { display: table-footer-group }
col { display: table-column }
colgroup { display: table-column-group }
td, th { display: table-cell }
caption { display: table-caption }
th { font-weight: bolder; text-align: center }
caption { text-align: center }
body { margin: 8px }
h1 { font-size: 2em; margin: .67em 0 }
h2 { font-size: 1.5em; margin: .75em 0 }
h3 { font-size: 1.17em; margin: .83em 0 }
h4, p,
blockquote, ul,
fieldset, form,
ol, dl, dir,
menu { margin: 1.12em 0 }
h5 { font-size: .83em; margin: 1.5em 0 }
h6 { font-size: .75em; margin: 1.67em 0 }
h1, h2, h3, h4,
h5, h6, b,
strong { font-weight: bolder }
blockquote { margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px }
i, cite, em,
var, address { font-style: italic }
pre, tt, code,
kbd, samp { font-family: monospace }
pre { white-space: pre }
button, textarea,
input, select { display: inline-block }
big { font-size: 1.17em }
small, sub, sup { font-size: .83em }
sub { vertical-align: sub }
sup { vertical-align: super }
table { border-spacing: 2px; }
thead, tbody,
tfoot { vertical-align: middle }
td, th, tr { vertical-align: inherit }
s, strike, del { text-decoration: line-through }
hr { border: 1px inset }
ol, ul, dir,
menu, dd { margin-left: 40px }
ol { list-style-type: decimal }
ol ul, ul ol,
ul ul, ol ol { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0 }
u, ins { text-decoration: underline }
br:before { content: "A"; white-space: pre-line }
center { text-align: center }
:link, :visited { text-decoration: underline }
:focus { outline: thin dotted invert }

/* Begin bidirectionality settings (do not change) */
BDO[DIR=”ltr”] { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }
BDO[DIR=”rtl”] { direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }

*[DIR=”ltr”] { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed }
*[DIR=”rtl”] { direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed }

@media print {
h1 { page-break-before: always }
h1, h2, h3,
h4, h5, h6 { page-break-after: avoid }
ul, ol, dl { page-break-before: avoid }
}

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