dropin-minimal-css/README.md

Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks

This is a quick drop-in CSS switcher to allow for previewing some of the many minimal CSS-only frameworks that are available. See the demo or drop the switcher into your own page to see how different frameworks would look together with your content.

This project only includes minimal frameworks, in other words, boilerplate / classless frameworks that require no adjustment of the corresponding HTML and can be simply dropped into the project to provide a starting point for further design. No additional javascript, compiling, pre-processors, or fiddling with classes should be required for these to look good and be responsive.

• 1 Usage
  • 1.1 Keyboard shortcut
  • 1.2 Bookmarklet
  • 1.3 API
• 2 Frameworks
  • 2.1 Adding frameworks
  • 2.2 List of frameworks
  • 2.3 Theme collections
• 3 See also
  • 3.1 Other similar collections
• 4 Acknowledgements
• 5 License

Usage

To use the CSS switcher, just add the following line anywhere within the body tag on your page:

<script src="https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/switcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

That's it! You should now be able to cycle through the different frameworks by choosing them from the dropdown at the top of the page.

Keyboard shortcut

You can quickly switch between frameworks by pressing the modifier key or keys on your keyboard + s to focus the switcher dropdown menu, followed by the up and down keys to move up and down the list.

Bookmarklet

The bookmarklet is a convenient way to preview how different CSS frameworks would look on any HTML page. Just paste the following code into your address bar to create a CSS switcher for any site:

javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20body%20%3D%20document.getElementsByTagName('body')%5B0%5D%3Bscript%20%3D%20document.createElement('script')%3Bscript.type%3D%20'text%2Fjavascript'%3Bscript.src%3D%20'https%3A%2F%2Fdohliam.github.io%2Fdropin-minimal-css%2Fswitcher.js'%3Bbody.appendChild(script)%7D)()

Or alternatively, drag the link at the top of the demo page to your browser's bookmark bar.

Boomarklet generated by the Bookmarklet Creator. Thanks to markdown-css for the idea!

API

There is a simple API available to allow linking directly to particular stylesheets on the demo page. For example:

https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/?sakura

The above links directly to the demo with Sakura CSS.

Frameworks

Adding frameworks

If you know of a minimal framework that hasn't been included here, please create an issue or pull request so that we can add it to the list!

List of frameworks

• a11yana by @alexandersandberg (Source · MIT)
• awsm by @igoradamenko (Source · MIT)
• bahunya by @Kimeiga (Source · MIT)
• bare by @longsien (Source · MIT)
• base by @matthewhartman (Source · MIT)
• bullframe by @marcop135 (Source · MIT)
• bulma by @jgthms (Source · MIT)
• caiuss by @IonicaBizau (Source · MIT)
• caramel by Lumios (Source · MIT)
• cardinal by @cbracco (Source · MIT)
• chota by @jenil (Source · MIT)
• clmaterial by @24aitor (Source · MIT)
• comet by @marcbruederlin (Source · MIT)
• concise by ConciseCSS (Source · MIT)
• concrete by @louismerlin (Source · MIT)
• flat-ui by Designmodo (Source · CC BY & MIT)
• fluidity by @mrmrs (Source · MIT)
• furtive by @johnotander (Source · MIT)
• generic by @Vereis (Source · MIT)
• github-markdown by @sindresorhus (Source · MIT)
• hack by @egoist (Source · MIT)
• holiday by @EvgenyOrekhov (Source · MIT)
• html-starterkit by @zitrusfrisch (Source · MIT)
• hyp by @krszwsk (Source · MIT)
• kathamo by @debashisbarman (Source · MIT)
• koochak by @peyman3d (Source · MIT)
• kraken by @cferdinandi (Source · MIT)
• kube by @imperavi (Source · MIT)
• latex by @davidrzs (Source · MIT)
• lemon by @appalaszynski (Source · MIT)
• lit by @Ajusa (Source · MIT)
• lotus by @goatslacker (Source · MIT)
• markdown by @mrcoles (Source · MIT)
• marx by @mblode (Source · MIT)
• materialize by @Dogfalo (Source · MIT)
• mercury by @wmeredith (Source · MIT)
• milligram by @cjpatoilo (Source · MIT)
• min by @owenversteeg (Source · MIT)
• mini by @Chalarangelo (Source · MIT)
• mobi by @xcatliu (Source · MIT
• motherplate by @leemunroe (Source · MIT)
• mu by @BafS (Source · MIT)
• mui by @amorey (Source · MIT)
• mvp by @andybrewer (Source · MIT)
• new.css by @xz (Source) · MIT
• no-class by @davidpaulsson (Source · MIT)
• normalize by @necolas (Source · MIT)
• oh-my-css by @egoist (Source · MIT)
• paper by @rhyneav (Source · ISC)
• papier by @alexanderGugel (Source · MIT)
• pavilion by @baasdesign (Source · MIT)
• picnic by @FranciscoP (Source · MIT)
• preface by @cluzier (Source · MIT)
• primer by GitHub Inc. (Source · MIT)
• pure by @yahoo (Source · BSD)
• sakura by @oxalorg (Source · MIT)
• sanitize-10up by @10up (Source · PD)
• sanitize-zdroid by @ZDroid (Source · MIT)
• semantic-ui by Semantic-Org (Source · MIT)
• shoelace by @claviska (Source · MIT)
• siimple by @jmjuanes (Source · MIT)
• simple by @neculaesei (Source · MIT)
• skeleton by @dhg (Source · MIT)
  • skeleton-framework by skeleton-framework (Source · MIT)
  • skeleton-plus by @oltmannsdaniel (Source · MIT)
• snack by @nzbin (Source · MIT)
• spectre by @picturepan2 (Source · MIT)
• style by @ungoldman (Source · ISC)
• stylize by @vasanthv (Source · MIT)
• tachyons by tachyons-css (Source · MIT)
• tacit by @yegor256 (Source · MIT)
• tent by @ulinaaron (Source · MIT)
• thao by Giuseppe Sanfrancesco (Source · Apache)
• vanilla by @bradleytaunt (Source · MIT)
• vital by @doximity (Source · Apache)
• water by @kognise (Source · MIT)
• wing by @KingPixil (Source · MIT)
• writ by @programble (Source · ISC)
• YAMB by @runxel (Source) · Blue Oak Model License
• yorha by @metakirby5 (Source · MIT)

Theme collections

• asciidoctor-skins by @darshandsoni (MIT)
  • Including Gazette, Medium, Notebook, and Tufte themes
• bootswatch by @thomaspark (MIT)
  • Including Cerulean, Cosmo, Cyborg, Darkly, Flatly, Journal, Lumen, Paper, Readable, Sandstone, Slate, Spacelab, Superhero, and Yeti themes
• markdowncss by @johnotander:
  • Air (Source · MIT)
  • Modest (Source · MIT)
  • Retro (Source · MIT)
  • Splendor (Source · MIT)

See also

• workflow - Quick prototyping script for creating rich html and pdfs from markdown documents (based on dropin-minimal-css)
• asciidoctor-skins - CSS stylesheets for asciidoctor (with a switcher based on dropin-minimal-css)

Other similar collections

• CSS Bed by @ubershmekel
• classless-css by @dbohdan
• cleanrmd by @gadenbuie
• awesome-css-frameworks by @troxler

Acknowledgements

• Sample HTML5 markup based on html5-test-page by @cbracco (MIT)
• Example images in the demo are by MichaelMaggs on Wikimedia Commons
• Example videos provided by the Blender Foundation via the HTML5-Test-Videos project
• Embedded audio Night Owl by Broke For Free at the Free Music Archive
• Special thanks to Tacit CSS, which was the original inspiration for making this list to answer the question "Where can I find more frameworks like Tacit?"
• Table of contents made with tocdown

License

MIT.