Is there a convention for the use of "*" in a style sheet?

The last one for today, I promise you...

I have an external style sheet and one of the rules is labeled the character ' * ' (asterisk).

The person set this rule with the attributes of 0 and 0 padding border.  I find instances in HTML of the site where DW uses this (more in the CSS property panels right side) although I can't find the bodies in the HTML code where it is called more precisely.

Is there some edict in "lore of web design" that dictates the use of the asterisk for statements of rules rather than, say, a string or Word?

I think there must be a reason why the original designer went to «*»  Or maybe it's something DW did on its own?

I wonder what are the implications?  In all my self-taught training, I never ran across this...

Hoibie

In CSS, the asterisk (*) is often used as a universal selector to reset the browser default margins, padding, borders, etc... on everything.   You won't see anywhere in your HTML code.

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