title: Purpose of asterisk before a CSS property
body: <p>The following is taken from the Yahoo CSS reset. Can someone please explain the purpose of the asterisks?</p>
  
  <pre><code>body {
    font:13px/1.231 arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;
    *font-size:small;
    *font:x-small;
  }
  </code></pre>