Q:

Css reset causes tables not to look right

I applied the following css reset to my website's css stylesheet (validating as css 2.0 and used with xhtml 1.0 transitional webpage)

html,body,div,span,applet,object,iframe,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,a,abbr,acronym,address,big,cite,code,del,dfn,em,img,ins,kbd,q,s,samp,small,strike,strong,sub,sup,tt,var,b,u,i,center,dl,dt,dd,ol,ul,li,fieldset,form,label,legend,table,caption,tbody,tfoot,thead,tr,th,td,article,aside,canvas,details,embed,figure,figcaption,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,output,ruby,section,summary,time,mark,audio,video{margin:0;padding:0;border:0;font-size:100%;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;} 

However, in my website I have a table that no longer looks right.  More precisely, the table is now out of position and the borders (originally black) are no longer visible.
I'm wondering if i should just zap off the table, border rules ar if I can keep the reset as is and tell the browser later on to display or not the borders.  My main hesitation is that I'd like to keep the same reset for all my pages and that changing the reset just for the pages that have tables (tabular data) will only make everything complicated, since I'm using a EXTERNAL STYLESHEET.

A:

Quick fix: just remove all table code from your reset
html,body,div,span,applet,object,iframe,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,a,abbr,acronym,address,big,cite,code,del,dfn,em,img,ins,kbd,q,s,samp,small,strike,strong,sub,sup,tt,var,b,u,i,center,dl,dt,dd,ol,ul,li,fieldset,form,label,legend,article,aside,canvas,details,embed,figure,figcaption,footer,header,hgroup,menu,nav,output,ruby,section,summary,time,mark,audio,video{

margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
font-size:100%;
font:inherit;
vertical-align:baseline;}

Better fix, use a css normalizer rather than a reset: take a look at the one used by the html5boilerplate project

