CSS framework
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A CSS framework is a pre-prepared software framework that are meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant web design using the Cascading Style Sheets language.
Description
Most of these frameworks contain at least a grid.
More elaborate frameworks provide JavaScript-based features, but are mostly design oriented and unobtrusive.
A JavaScript framework, by comparison, is more computer programming-oriented.
Bootstrap and Foundation
Two notable and widely used examples are Bootstrap and Foundation.
Features
CSS frameworks offer various features:
- Reset style sheet
- Grid, especially for responsive web design
- Web typography
- Set of icons in sprites or icon fonts
- Styling for tooltips, buttons, elements of forms
- graphical user interfaces objects:
- Accordion
- Tabset
- Slideshow
- Modal window (Lightbox)
- Equalizer to create equal height content
- CSS helper classes (left, hide)
Bigger frameworks use a CSS interpreter like LESS or SASS.
See also
- Baseguide
- Bootstrap (framework)
- BoxySheets
- Cascade Framework
- Cascade Framework Light
- Chopstick
- Concise
- Flexify
- floatz
- Foundation
- Ink
- inuitcss
- Kathamo
- Kube
- Kule Lazy
- Material Design Lite
- Materialize
- Modest Grid
- Pure CSS
- Responsee
- Responsive BP
- Responsive Grid System
- Schema UI / Built with LESS
- Semantic UI
- Sierra SCSS Library
- Tacit
- uikit
- Unsemantic
- Visual Component Library (VCL)
- W3.CSS
- Wee
External links
- CSS frameworks @ Wikipedia