What are we facing?
The war of browsers is a never ending story. With Chrome as a new player in the browsing scene, how do you get sure your website is consistently rendered across multiple browsers? How do I get there?
The Solution
This topic is hot and the cornerstone of having a site accessible. The Central Office of Information of UK will tell you that “conforming to web standards such as XHTML and CSS are more likely to work well across a wide range of browsers”. So obviously, moving your site to web standards will take you on the right path. However, as Rick Strahl states: “even with XHTML there are still major differences between different browsers and how they set their default settings for various CSS tags.”
Oops, and now? Given such lack of communication/definition of standards between browsers in that level, a nifty workaround exists: Browser reset. As Rick Strahl again clearly explains, “A browser reset is meant to reset the browser’s CSS setting to a common default value set. Basically each browser has slightly different base settings mostly for margins, padding, borders etc. as well as many other settings that can affect browser rendering slightly and often results in the little inconsistencies […]. The reset effectively is used to reset the browser to a common baseline, upon which any further CSS settings are based.”
Brilliant!
Just adding this line (assuming you already have the reset.css file):
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="reset.css" />
And now you are able built style upon that resetting, and voila! it will rendered consistently on all browsers.
Where do I find a reset file? You will find some interesting options:
Some external references
