What does “*” mean in CSS?

This is a common technique called a CSS reset. Different browsers use different default margins, causing sites to look different by margins. The * means “all elements” (a universal selector), so we are setting all elements to have zero margins, and zero padding, thus making them look the same in all browsers.

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