# jgthms/minireset.css

A tiny modern CSS reset

Repository: https://github.com/jgthms/minireset.css
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/miniresetcss
Homepage: http://jgthms.com/minireset.css/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: css, reset
Last push: 2024-07-11T11:58:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3659, "days_push": 783, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2801, forks 505 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:22.610052+00:00)

## What it is
minireset.css is a tiny modern CSS reset that normalizes font sizes, block margins, tables, box sizing, and responsive media elements. It ships as plain CSS, a minified build, a Sass version, and a LitElement CSSResult export.

## Use cases
- reset default browser styles before building a design system
- make semantic HTML elements render consistently across browsers
- apply border-box sizing globally to a web project
- make images and embeds responsive by default
- include a CSS reset in a Sass/SCSS project
- use a CSS reset inside LitElement web components

## When to choose
- you want a minimal, modern alternative to normalize.css or classic resets
- you need a tiny reset with Sass and web component variants
- you want spacing and typography controlled only by your own styles

## When to avoid
- you need a full normalize.css with extensive browser-specific fixes
- your framework or CSS library already includes its own reset or preflight

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser
- tags: css-reset, sass, normalize, box-sizing, web-components, lit-element, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jgthms/minireset.css (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.610052+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:14:34.204365+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jgthms/minireset.css (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.610052+00:00, sha f005f9bfea36)
  - homepage: http://jgthms.com/minireset.css/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:54:52.388128+00:00, sha 613e6a02dd38)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/minireset.css (fetched 2026-08-29T09:54:52.390576+00:00, sha fc4fdc7d477a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.