Skeleton is a simple, responsive boilerplate to kickstart any responsive project.
Check out http://getskeleton.com for documentation and details.
There are a couple ways to download Skeleton:
- Download the zip
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton.git(Note: this is under active development, so if you're looking for stable and safe, use the zipped download)
The download includes Skeleton's CSS, Normalize CSS as a reset, a sample favicon, and an index.html as a starting point.
Skeleton/
├── index.html
├── css/
│ ├── normalize.min.css
│ └── skeleton.css
└── images/
└── favicon.ico
Skeleton is lightweight and simple. It styles only raw HTML elements (with a few exceptions) and provides a responsive grid. Nothing more.
- Around 400 lines of CSS unminified and with comments
- It's a starting point, not a UI framework
- No compiling or installing...just vanilla CSS
- Chrome latest
- Firefox latest
- Opera latest
- Safari latest
- IE latest
The above list is non-exhaustive. Skeleton works perfectly with almost all older versions of the browsers above, though IE certainly has large degradation prior to IE9.
All parts of Skeleton are free to use and abuse under the open-source MIT license.
The following are extensions to Skeleton built by the community. They are not officially supported, but all have been tested and are compatible with v2.0 (exact release noted):
- Skeleton on LESS: Skeleton built with LESS for easier replacement of grid, color, and media queries. (Last update was to match v2.0.1)
- Skeleton on Sass: Skeleton built with Sass for easier replacement of grid, color, and media queries. (Last update was to match v2.0.1)
Have an extension you want to see here? Just shoot an email to hi@getskeleton.com with your extension!
Skeleton was built using Sublime Text 3 and designed with Sketch. The typeface Raleway was created by Matt McInerney and Pablo Impallari. Code highlighting by Google's Prettify library. Icons in the header of the documentation are all derivative work of icons from The Noun Project. Feather by Zach VanDeHey, Pen (with cap) by Ed Harrison, Pen (with clicker) by Matthew Hall, and Watch by Julien Deveaux.
Why gitter and not slack? Nature abhores monopoly and while I have my reservations that it'll ever grow to a scale that will hit Slacks limitations for large communities: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html
## Why fork?
I think we owe a beer or two to Dave Gamache building this and making it available to the public. I created an Organisation and added a handful of people with thoughtful well documented PRs as members. Aim is to minimise the single Point of Failure that a single owner can have.
Skeleton was created by Dave Gamache for a better web. See contributions.txt for people who've taken the time to make improvements big and small.
The current goal is to fix bugs, maintain compatibility across changes, and keep it a small library.