Cirrus

A fully responsive and comprehensive CSS framework with cbeautiful controls and simplistic structure. Cirrus is designed to be adaptable to existing themes or when starting fresh.

Framework Components

• Framework components are now broken down into core and ext packages. The core package only contains the essentials for basic styling while core + ext adds specially designed components.

Core

• Buttons
  • Styles for the button with 3 different variations.
• Code
  • Style for code markup blocks.
• Default (Base)
  • The core of this framework.
• Font
  • All text styles for this framework for headers, articles, blockquotes, and paragraphs.
• Footer
  • Basic styles for setting up a page footer.
• Forms
  • Form styles for textboxes, textfields, selects, and layout.
• Frames
  • Flexible panel with header, body, and footer for layouts.
• Header
  • Styles for header elements including drop down menus.
• Layout
  • Rules for grids, item alignment, and layout borders.
• Links
  • Link styles with different effects.
• Lists
  • A simple stylesheet to simplify list UI.
• Media
  • Rules for styling images, videos, figures, avatars, and other media components.
• Modal
  • Styles for a pop up modal dialog.
• Placeholder
  • A padded generic container to display additional information.
• Tables
  • Clean designs for tables.
• Theme
  • Default colors of the framework.
• Util
  • Designed to solve many common headaches with CSS.

Ext

• Animations
  • Consists of animations that will work with the controls.
• Avatar
  • Styles for user avatars.
• Cards
  • Base for card controls.
• Pagination
  • Design for pagination and pagination navigation links.
• Tabs
  • Contains styles for tab controls.
• Tags
  • Chip-like controls that are helpful for listing items.
• Tiles
  • Flexible layout used for tiling controls horizontally.
• Toast
  • A small overaly notification for websites.
• Tooltips
  • Add tooltips to any control for contextual info.

jQuery

• The only component that requires the use of jQuery is the Header component for toggling the dropdown menu on mobile.
• It is possible to use these components without jQuery in other frameworks like Angular and React by mimicking the behavior of toggling the class.

Why not other frameworks?

Even with a multitude of CSS frameworks, some are either too basic to develop more complex websites and some are too bogged down with a lot of styles that don't end up getting used. Cirrus is meant to bridge a gap between boilerplate stylesheets and UI frameworks.

Getting Started

Install with npm

npm install cirrus-ui

Install with Yarn

yarn add cirrus-ui

Link

https://unpkg.com/cirrus-ui

Supported Browsers

• Chrome
• Opera
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge (Untested)
• Internet Explorer (Untested)

Examples that use Cirrus

• Polarity 9
• Phraze

License and Attribution

Cirrus is licensed under the MIT license. If this frame work has helped you in any way, attribution in the footer of your website would be much appreciated.