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"Best" CSS Framework? Tons of articles, none make sense

Sunday May 12 2024

The articles just don't make sense. They sound like they do, they read like they do ... but until someone properly defines categories of CSS Frameworks, the articles CAN'T MAKE SENSE! Period. That's even true of the market share statistics that are available. According to the market share...

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Bootstrap, I am surprised

Saturday May 11 2024

Bulma I am thoroughly familiar with, Bootstrap - not as much. I spent the past few days going over the classes. I was looking for the same kind of foolishness I found in other packages. Looking for useless code. Looking for ways to improve. Looking for bloat. The result is that I am shaking my head...

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Conversion surprises

Tuesday May 7 2024

Yesterday I wrote that I had created a conversion utility (in PHP) to take a Bulma CSS Framework grid and convert it directly into my CSS Framework. I did do that, and solved the issue of different breakpoints. I wanted to further refine the conversion utility and do a full conversion, not just the...

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Converter built: Bulma to my CSS Framework

Monday May 6 2024

As I get closer to finishing up this project, thoughts turned to converting my components and some of my projects over to my new CSS Framework. Still haven't named it yet. I did build a converter to change all the class names from Bulma CSS Framework. over to my new CSS Framework. Ran into a few...

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What if?

Sunday May 5 2024

Spending some time going over my CSS Framework code, in particular - the grid system. I found a small issue when it wrapped and the row conained an offset. I had forgotten to add a condition to remove the spacing on an offset ... more important, I had forgotten that an offset should be hidden in...

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Seeing it all come together

Thursday May 2 2024

Click to view full size: showing major components (navbar, sidebar, footer) There's a joy in seeing this project come together so well. This project: my roll-your-own CSS Framework. Before I start in on this article, know that all the screen shots on this page are thumbnails ... if you click on...

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May 1 update, CSS Framework

Thursday May 2 2024

Rolling your own CSS Framework is a challenge. On multiple fronts. Although I've used CSS for decades, I have never really beyond application level css files. You know what I mean, typically a few hundred lines of CSS code - usually to "tweak" an existing design. For the past few years, I have...

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Dropdown menu and submenus - without Javascript

Tuesday April 30 2024

Many of the solutions to vertical menus with submenus involve javascript to trigger submenus, either through mouseover or by direct click. The click action seems to be the most popular since it does not involve any transitions or animations. Click and it appears. There are also quite a few examples...

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Target: CSS Framework (semantic)

Monday April 29 2024

It's an ambitious plan. I am working on a CSS Framework. It's an unusual task, what I want is a CSS Framework that supports and respects HTML tags: semantic HTML. By that, I mean when I type in <section> ... </section> that I get a section with as little opinions as possible. No CSS...

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Utility based or component based?

Thursday April 25 2024

Bulma CSS Framework has been my choice for a bit longer than two years now. My first introduction was with version 0.9.3, a few months before 0.94 was launched. Version 0.9.4 has been my "go-to" since. Over time, I had to write a few modifications and fixes to better use the package. Modifications...

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