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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.
