KNACSS is a minimalist, responsive and extensible open source framework and CSS reset to kick-start your HTML / CSS projects.
It relies on common best practices and experience on the topic.
It handles basic elements, good practices, box sizing, margins, floats, simple and complex aligns, positioning, layout grids, gutters, old IE fallbacks and last but not least responsiveness, everything automagically.
Key Features
- Lightweight and customizable.
- Fluid grid layout.
- Brick positioning intuitive, and grids and gutters.
- Intended to be automatically responsive.
- Provides best practices, layout helpers and code snippets, and “visual classes”.
- Consists of a lightweight CSS file to avoid unnecessary queries and loads.
- Focuses on reusability and semantic CSS class names.
Website: www.knacss.com
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Raphael Goetter, Alsacreations
License: WTFPL
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