Last Updated on February 21, 2023
GroundworkCSS is a fully responsive open source HTML5, CSS and Javascript toolkit.
GroundworkCSS is a responsive design tool to rapidly prototype and create accessible web apps that work on virtually any device. It features a flexible, nestable, fluid grid system.
Groundwork was created by Gary Hepting.
Features include:
- Nestable, fractional, responsive, adaptive, fluid grid system; supporting any columns in any fractional amount from halves to twelfths.
- Supports semantic markup with ARIA attribute selectors, using Sass’ @extend, @mixins, %placeholders & more.
- Responsive Text – create responsive headings, responsive text blocks and responsive tables.
- Rapid prototyping and wireframes with dynamic placeholder text, images and fonts.
- Responsive and adaptive fractional grid system.
- Breakpoint-targeted layout, typographic, and conditional helpers for responsive & adaptive layouts.
- Typography – Headings, paragraphs, emphasizers, links, lists, web fonts, quotes, code, and colors.
- Responsive navigation.
- Easy-to-customize button styles.
- Easily wrap content in a box.
- Provide users with feedback or instructions.
- Clean and easy to customize styling for tabular data.
- Accessible, responsive tab panels that collapse into accordions at targeted breakpoints.
- Easy to customize & flexible form elements wrapped in the grid system.
- Font Awesome Icons.
- JavaScript helpers that make fitting text blocks within responsive designs a breeze.
- Rapid prototyping with dynamic placeholder text and the Redacted placeholder fonts.
- Collection of pure CSS3 animations, mostly from Animate.css.
- Highly customizable and configurable.
- Built with Sass, a powerful CSS preprocessor. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more.
- Built with modular SCSS and JS components.
- Accessibility, supporting ARIA state/role and semantic element selectors
- Works on virtually anything: mobile, tablet, or large screen devices.
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Developer: Gary Hepting
License: MIT License
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