Gridless is an HTML5 and CSS3, one web boilerplate to help you make progressively-enhanced, mobile first responsive websites/webapps that have beautiful typography with a vertical rhythm, sensible styles and are HTML5-ready and cross-browser compatible.
Gridless is simple and isn't littered with pre-defined non-semantic silly classes or pre-made grid systems.
- Responsive (responds to the user's device screen width with the correct content and CSS)
- Progressive enhancement, mobile first
- Cross-browser compatible (even IE6 and 7)
- CSS normalization instead of CSS reset
- Beautiful typography with a vertical rhythm and heading sizes based on golden ratio
- Print styles optimized for performance
- Optimal caching
- HTML5 and CSS3 ready
- Safe CSS hacks instead of conditional classnames/stylesheets
- [Micro clearfix hack] clearfix
- A well-organized folder structure
Gridless was tested in the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox 3.6+ Opera 11+ Google Chrome 11+ Safari 5+ Internet Explorer 6+
Although some of these browsers are very recent, Gridless should work in any modern browser without problems.
- index.html: The HTML page with the initial markup
- assets/ (folder): The folder that includes all the assets
- css/ (folder): The folder that includes all the CSS files
- main.css: The main CSS file with basic styles and media queries
- fonts/ (empty folder): The folder where your webfonts reside
- img/ (empty folder): The folder where your images reside
- js/ (folder): The folder that includes all the JavaScript files
- respond.min.js: Respond.js, which is a polyfill for media queries on older browsers
- css/ (folder): The folder that includes all the CSS files
- Use HTML5 polyfills to bring future to all browsers
- Use a tool like resizeMyBrowser or ProtoFluid for testing your responsive designs on common browser widths
- Consider using CSS3 Please! and CSSPrefixer to help you write faster CSS3
- Use a script loader like yepnope.js or HeadJS to load your scripts faster and without blocking
- Use more
metatags inside yourhead - Write efficient CSS for better browser performance
- Use an HTML5 lint tool for better markup
- Use microdata for better search results and semantic markup
- If you'd like to use font-sizes outside the default modular scale (1.625), see http://drewish.com/tools/vertical-rhythm and http://modularscale.com
- If you'd like help people move off IE6 with an warning, add this HTML to your body:
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<div style=' clear: both; height: 59px; padding:0 0 0 15px; position: relative;'>
<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home?ocid=ie6_countdown_bannercode"><img src="http://www.theie6countdown.com/images/banners/warning_bar_0000_us.jpg" border="0" height="42" width="820" alt="You are using an outdated browser. For a faster, safer browsing experience, upgrade for free today." /></a>
</div>
<![endif]-->
Because Gridless is ...well, gridless. It doesn't have any grid systems. The problem with most other CSS frameworks is that they include grid systems with presentational classes and/or ids without any semantic. Classes and ids should be unique to each project and shouldn't be declared on pre-made documents. Still, if you don't agree with that, just include your favorite grid system (only the grid part, remove the reset, typography etc.) and it'll work like a charm!
Major components:
- HTML5 shim: MIT license
- Normalize.css: Public domain
- Respond.js: MIT/GPLv2
Everything else:
Ethan Marcotte, Bryan Rieger, Luke Wroblewski, Jeremy Keith, Paul Irish, Nicolas Gallagher, Jonathan Neal, Scott Jehl, Eric Meyer, Oliver Reichenstein, Wilson Miner, Harry Roberts, Mathias Bynens, Kroc Camen, Chris Coyier, Richard Rutter, Remy Sharp, Kilian Valkhof and many others.
If you'd like to contribute to Gridless, visit https://github.com/thatcoolguy/gridless-boilerplate and send a pull request or an issue. You can also fork the project or clone it. Do anything, it's open-source!