I've just checked the latest trunk @ codeplex and realized that "default.css" imports a stylesheet called "typography.css"

To my horror this file overrides and defines a lot of normal tags without using any DNN-specific classes. This is such a bad practice! I'm sorry if I sound snarky, but these are CASCADING stylesheets and we peons have to live with the decisions that you guys make upstream.

I get that you want to unify the look and feel of modules and provide a basic CSS-framework that your third-party developers can rely on. That's probably why you serve default.css on non-administrative pages in the first place. The real solution would be to finally provide structured content and move the whole administration of your content to the admin area. Like most other succesful CMS have done it for years now.

That said, I still don't get why you have to provide any general definition for a p, h1, input or other element and force it down our throats.