Adam Keys is Thinking

The CSS rediscovery continues!

Then, a few years ago, I read a blog post by Josh W Comeau called My Custom CSS Reset. I realized that there’s no deep magic; everything a reset does is just normal CSS that you can read and understand.

— Jake Lazaroff, My Modern CSS Reset

I have only copypasta’d other folks’ (thanks, Eric Meyer) reset code, assuming it’s deep CSS tricks that I didn’t want to understand. But Jake’s is an easy read, particularly if you read through his post.

I suppose it kind of blurs the line between “CSS reset” and “classless CSS framework”. My goal isn’t really to adhere to a strict definition of either one; I’ve just found this set of styles to be a good starting point for most websites I build.

I love a good classless CSS framework. I did not have “more excited about CSS than JS” on my 2025 web dev bingo card, but here we are.