title: Resetting margin & padding for every element. The most efficient way
body: <p>I am lost as to the reasoning behind most of the CSS reset style sheets (e.g., <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/" rel="noreferrer">Eric Meyer's</a>, Yahoo reset sheet). They essentially all do the same. However, what is the most efficient way to select every element on page?</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; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>vs</p>
  
  <pre><code>* { margin: 0; padding: 0 }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can tell intuitively it is the latter, yet, all of those reset sheets use the former.</p>