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components: CssBaseline
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# CSS Baseline
Material-UI provides a CssBaseline component to kickstart an elegant, consistent, and simple baseline to build upon.
You might be familiar with [normalize.css](https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css), a collection of HTML element and attribute style-normalizations.
```jsx
import React from 'react';
import CssBaseline from '@material-ui/core/CssBaseline';
function MyApp() {
return (
{/* The rest of your application */}
);
}
export default MyApp;
```
## Approach
### Page
The `` and `` elements are updated to provide better page-wide defaults. More specifically:
- The margin in all browsers is removed.
- The default Material Design background color is applied.
It's using [`theme.palette.background.default`](/customization/default-theme/?expend-path=$.palette.background) for standard devices and a white background for print devices.
### Layout
- `box-sizing` is set globally on the `` element to `border-box`.
Every element—including `*::before` and `*::after` are declared to inherit this property,
which ensures that the declared width of the element is never exceeded due to padding or border.
### Typography
- Font antialiasing is enabled for better display of the Roboto font.
- No base font-size is declared on the ``, but 16px is assumed (the browser default).
You can learn more about the implications of changing the `` default font size in [the theme documentation](/customization/themes/#typography-html-font-size) page.