What is difference between '*' and 'html, body' as a selector in CSS syntax?

Question

What's difference between following the two selectors?

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

html, body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '18 at 07:46

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* selects everything, including tags, classes, ids and eveything you can think of.

html, body only selects the body and the html tags.

answered Jan 19 '18 at 07:46

The reason why 'html, body' are applied to other elements is due to 'inheritance' – Kieran Smith Jan 19 '18 at 11:47

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