Applying "reset" styles on *

Question

Are there any drawbacks of applying global styles to all elements?

*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  list-style: none;
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

Answer 1

* is so-called 'heavy' selector. But unfortunately there is no* other way to apply border-box model to all elements in a couple lines of code. Talking about padding/margin and list-style reset - better use some common techniques from www.cssreset.com/

*Border-box can be applied here, in Eric Meyer's Reset CSS v2.0

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;
}