title: Why write all the tags to assign one style is better than using universal selector (*)?
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6880002/why-dont-css-resets-use-to-cover-all-elements">Why don&#39;t CSS resets use &#39;*&#39; to cover all elements?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I'm doing a page that have a lightweight HTML.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen gurus saying that universal selector is a bad thing and is better to use like that (From: <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/</a>):</p>
  
  <pre><code>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;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Using universal selector:</p>
  
  <pre><code>* {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      border: 0;
      font-size: 100%;
      font: inherit;
      vertical-align: baseline;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why universal selector is a bad thing?</p>
  
  <p>Considering the performance for page load I prefer the universal selector. Is there other thing that I'm not considering?</p>