Last Updated on July 11, 2021
Ink is an open source interface kit for quick development of web interfaces, simple to use and expand on. It is a HTML5/CSS3 framework for fast and efficient website design and prototyping which offers a fluid and responsive grid, common interface elements, interactive components, a design-first approach with ease of use and simplicity at its core.
It uses a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to offer modern solutions for building layouts, display common interface elements and implement interactive features that are content-centric and user friendly for both your audience and your designers & developers.
Ink is built with 1.4.0 LESS compiler version, FontAwesome, Ubuntu Font, HTML5 shiv and normalize.css.
Features include:
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- Truly fluid layout, all percentage-based.
- Grid system that offers real flexibility in building layouts.
- Generic styling classes which can be applied to many elements in different contexts to obtain a consistent result.
- Responsive, using a very logical size progression.
- Tries to rely as much as possible on natural language.
- Very easy to learn and reuse over time.
- Markup and CSS components for common web UI:
- Navigation – easy to implement and quick to make flexible and responsive to various screen widths.
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- Typography – simple and elegant base style for text with a clear hierarchy and flexible, generic styling for all types of typographical composition:
- Four basic list styles defined in Ink, which correspond to the most widely used HTML list formats and also include an unstyled list format.
- Typography – simple and elegant base style for text with a clear hierarchy and flexible, generic styling for all types of typographical composition:
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- Icons – uses Font Awesome, an icon webfont containing over 200 cool pictograms for use in your projects.
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- Forms – Form building nightmare made easy.
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- Alerts – basic alerts and block alerts.
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- Tables – display tabular data clearly with alternating colored rows, highlight rows on hover, full borders for a more classic table, combine several styles, and special colored rows.
- JavaScript engine called Ink JS Core which provides DOM manipulation, communication facilities, page effects and more.
- JS Components:
- Gallery.
- Modal.
- Table.
- Tree View.
- Sortable list.
- Date Picker.
- Tabs.
- Form Validator.
- Dockable, collapsible and close behaviours.
Website: ink.sapo.pt
Support: GitHub
Developer: SAPO
License: MIT License
Ink is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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