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# Reboot

Reboot, a collection of element-specific CSS changes in a single file, kickstart Bootstrap to provide an elegant, consistent, and simple baseline to build upon.

## Approach

Reboot builds upon Normalize, providing many HTML elements with somewhat opinionated styles using only element selectors. Additional styling is done only with classes. For example, we reboot some `<table>` styles for a simpler baseline and later provide `.table`, `.table-bordered`, and more.

Here are our guidelines and reasons for choosing what to override in Reboot:

- Update some browser default values to use `rem`s instead of `em`s for scalable component spacing.
- Avoid `margin-top`. Vertical margins can collapse, yielding unexpected results. More importantly though, a single direction of `margin` is a simpler mental model.
- For easier scaling across device sizes, block elements should use `rem`s for `margin`s.
- Keep declarations of `font`-related properties to a minimum, using `inherit` whenever possible.

## Page defaults

The `<html>` and `<body>` elements are updated to provide better page-wide defaults. More specifically:

- The `box-sizing` is globally set on every element—including `*::before` and `*::after`, to `border-box`. This ensures that the declared width of element is never exceeded due to padding or border.
- No base `font-size` is declared on the `<html>`, but `16px` is assumed (the browser default). `font-size: 1rem` is applied on the `<body>` for easy responsive type-scaling via media queries while respecting user preferences and ensuring a more accessible approach.
- The `<body>` also sets a global `font-family`, `line-height`, and `text-align`. This is inherited later by some form elements to prevent font inconsistencies.
- For safety, the `<body>` has a declared `background-color`, defaulting to `#fff`.

## Native font stack

The default web fonts (Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, and Arial) have been dropped in Bootstrap 4 and replaced with a “native font stack” for optimum text rendering on every device and OS. Read more about native font stacks in this Smashing Magazine article.

    $font-family-sans-serif:
      // Safari for macOS and iOS (San Francisco)
      -apple-system,
      // Chrome < 56 for macOS (San Francisco)
      BlinkMacSystemFont,
      // Windows
      "Segoe UI",
      // Android
      Roboto,
      // Basic web fallback
      "Helvetica Neue", Arial,
      // Linux
      "Noto Sans",
      "Liberation Sans",
      // Sans serif fallback
      sans-serif,
      // Emoji fonts
      "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji" !default;

Note that because the font stack includes emoji fonts, many common symbol/dingbat unicode characters will be rendered as multi-colored pictographs. Their appearance will vary, depending on the style used in the browser/platform’s native emoji font, and they won’t be affected by any CSS `color` styles.

This `font-family` is applied to the `<body>` and automatically inherited globally throughout Bootstrap. To switch the global `font-family`, update `$font-family-base` and recompile Bootstrap.

## Headings and paragraphs

All heading elements—e.g., `<h1>`—and `<p>` are reset to have their `margin-top` removed. Headings have `margin-bottom: .5rem` added and paragraphs `margin-bottom: 1rem` for easy spacing.

Heading | Example
--- | ---
`<h1></h1>` | h1. Bootstrap heading
`<h2></h2>` | h2. Bootstrap heading
`<h3></h3>` | h3. Bootstrap heading
`<h4></h4>` | h4. Bootstrap heading
`<h5></h5>` | h5. Bootstrap heading
`<h6></h6>` | h6. Bootstrap heading

## Lists

All lists—`<ul>`, `<ol>`, and `<dl>`—have their `margin-top` removed and a `margin-bottom: 1rem`. Nested lists have no `margin-bottom`.

- All lists have their top margin removed
- And their bottom margin normalized
- Nested lists have no bottom margin
  - This way they have a more even appearance
  - Particularly when followed by more list items
- The left padding has also been reset

1. Here’s an ordered list
2. With a few list items
3. It has the same overall look
4. As the previous unordered list

For simpler styling, clear hierarchy, and better spacing, description lists have updated `margin`s. `<dd>`s reset `margin-left` to `0` and add `margin-bottom: .5rem`. `<dt>`s are bolded.

Description lists
  A description list is perfect for defining terms.
Term
  Definition for the term.
  A second definition for the same term.
Another term
  Definition for this other term.

## Preformatted text

The `<pre>` element is reset to remove its `margin-top` and use `rem` units for its `margin-bottom`.

    .example-element {
      margin-bottom: 1rem;
    }

## Tables

Tables are slightly adjusted to style `<caption>`s, collapse borders, and ensure consistent `text-align` throughout. Additional changes for borders, padding, and more come with the `.table` class.

This is an example table, and this is its caption to describe the contents.
Table heading | Table heading | Table heading | Table heading
--- | --- | --- | ---
Table cell | Table cell | Table cell | Table cell
Table cell | Table cell | Table cell | Table cell
Table cell | Table cell | Table cell | Table cell

## Forms

Various form elements have been rebooted for simpler base styles. Here are some of the most notable changes:

- `<fieldset>`s have no borders, padding, or margin so they can be easily used as wrappers for individual inputs or groups of inputs.
- `<legend>`s, like fieldsets, have also been restyled to be displayed as a heading of sorts.
- `<label>`s are set to `display: inline-block` to allow `margin` to be applied.
- `<input>`s, `<select>`s, `<textarea>`s, and `<button>`s are mostly addressed by Normalize, but Reboot removes their `margin` and sets `line-height: inherit`, too.
- `<textarea>`s are modified to only be resizable vertically as horizontal resizing often “breaks” page layout.
- `<button>`s and `<input>` button elements have `cursor: pointer` when `:not(:disabled)`.

These changes, and more, are demonstrated below.

Example legend

Example input

Example select

Check this checkbox

Option one is this and that Option two is something else that's also super long to demonstrate the wrapping of these fancy form controls. Option three is disabled

Example textarea

Example date

Example time

Example output 100

### Pointers on buttons

Reboot includes an enhancement for `role="button"` to change the default cursor to `pointer`. Add this attribute to elements to help indicate elements are interactive. This role isn’t necessary for `<button>` elements, which get their own `cursor` change.

Non-button element button

    <span role="button" tabindex="0">Non-button element button</span>

## Misc elements

### Address

The `<address>` element is updated to reset the browser default `font-style` from `italic` to `normal`. `line-height` is also now inherited, and `margin-bottom: 1rem` has been added. `<address>`s are for presenting contact information for the nearest ancestor (or an entire body of work). Preserve formatting by ending lines with `<br>`.

### Blockquote

The default `margin` on blockquotes is `1em 40px`, so we reset that to `0 0 1rem` for something more consistent with other elements.

> A well-known quote, contained in a blockquote element.

### Inline elements

The `<abbr>` element receives basic styling to make it stand out amongst paragraph text.

Nulla attr vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue.

### Summary

The default `cursor` on summary is `text`, so we reset that to `pointer` to convey that the element can be interacted with by clicking on it.

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## HTML5 `[hidden]` attribute

HTML5 adds a new global attribute named `[hidden]`, which is styled as `display: none` by default. Borrowing an idea from PureCSS, we improve upon this default by making `[hidden] { display: none !important; }` to help prevent its `display` from getting accidentally overridden. While `[hidden]` isn’t natively supported by IE10, the explicit declaration in our CSS gets around that problem.

    <input type="text" hidden>

##### jQuery incompatibility

`[hidden]` is not compatible with jQuery’s `$(...).hide()` and `$(...).show()` methods. Therefore, we don’t currently especially endorse `[hidden]` over other techniques for managing the `display` of elements.

To merely toggle the visibility of an element, meaning its `display` is not modified and the element can still affect the flow of the document, use the `.invisible` class instead.