HTML-StarterKit, version v4.3

A simple, modular HTML5 template to kick off your responsive websites – written in SCSS and based on the BEM naming convention

• Website: http://zitrusfrisch.de/html-starterkit
• Demo: http://zitrusfrisch.de/html-starterkit/demo
• Facebook: http://facebook.com/htmlstarterkit
• Twitter: @htmlstarterkit

Speed up your workflow

HTML-StarterKit contains everything you need to create responsive websites: Stop caring about doctypes and ubiquitous HTML parts – just start developing.

Modern web standards

HTML-StarterKit is based on HTML5, styled using SCSS and is completely responsive out of the box. See the demo page.

It's free!

HTML-StarterKit is free for both personal and commercial usage under the terms of the MIT license. So fork away! :-)

HTML-StarterKit contains the following files

index.html

HTML5 based index file with common meta tags, links to CSS- and javascript files and exemplary content.

styles.css / styles.min.css

Compiled stylesheets built from SCSS files.

functions.js / functions.min.js

Use functions.js for your personal scripts and functions.

SCSS

The scss folder contains all styles, including Normalize CSS-Reset, basic styles and placeholders for frequently used UI elements as well as media query settings for common viewports. Following a modular approach each section and module has its own scss file. HTML-StarterKit comes with a set of handsome mixins and functions ready to use.

Version-Log

Version v4.3 (18.06.2021)

It's been a long time. Couple of minor updates. Nothing big.

Version v4.2 (09.02.2020)

• Updated form components, including custom style select dropdowns, checkboxes and radio buttons
• Extended .grid__cell—offset to .grid__cell—offset-l and .grid__cell—offset-r to add grid-based margins before and after the cell
• Optional sticky masthead
• Applied proper BEM structure to font weight and family variable names
• Removed meta name="description" from HTML head
• Updated normalize.css to version 8.0.1
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v4.1 (19.03.2019)

• Added CSS classes for font-sizes and font-families for more styling flexibility
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v4.0 (10.03.2019)

• Fully revamped grid-system based on flexbox
• Node Build script (hat-tip to @niklaskoehler!), solves Issue #4 Leak! :-) Comes in future version.
• New spacing classes mt--x (margin-top, specify with s, m, l, etc.) and mb--x (margin-bottom)
• Gathered all settings for global styles and components in settings.scss
• Other minor optimizations and bug fixes

Version v3.9 (18.06.2018)

• Back to S, M, L system for font-size and line-height variables
• Moved utilities.scss from components to core
• Updated normalize.css to version 8.0.0
• Bugfixes

Version v3.8 (15.05.2018)

• Back to S, M, L system for width and spacing variables
• Bugfixes

Version v3.7 (25.03.2018)

• Improved grid scss structure and new CSS classes to offset grid-cells individually

Version v3.6.2 (18.01.2017)

• Added css image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast; fix to optimise quality of scaled images in Chrome (see https://medium.freecodecamp.org/-898b38a6c0e1 fore more details on this)

Version v3.6.1 (10.09.2017)

• Bugfixes

Version v3.6 (07.09.2017)

• Create highly dynamic grids with freshly integrated offset classes for grid cells! Following the same naming pattern as the grid cells' widths, it's super-easy now to offset cells individually. (Sorry, for the bloated grid.scss: There's probably smarter ways to do this, but basic stuff tends to work best anyways. ;-)
• Variables and class names for screenwidths now use display-types instead of s, m, l etc., e.g. grid__cell--huge-screen-1-6
• Added more (bigger) spacing settings and classes
• Removed --s and --l modifiers for grid and gutter (barely used them)
• Removed card component
• New font size function lets you set font-size and line-height individually
• Mediabox component can now be used with (embedded) videos
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v3.5 (06.10.2016)

• Exchanged color map with a set of color variables
• Cells within a guttered grid now have a bottom margin equal to the gutter
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v3.4 (22.04.2016)

• New grid system! Control width of cols for each breakpoint with CSS classes
• Added CSS classes add margin-bottom to elements
• Fixed link to normalize in base.scss (Thanks @chriswhawkins)
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v3.3 (30.01.2016)

• Better file hierarchy: All globals are now stored separately in scss/core
• Inline media queries
• Added various CSS classes for common text styles (light, small, etc.)
• Isolated print styles in one file
• Even smarter color management with color variables and a color map for more detailed coloring.
• New card style component
• Touch-optimized form input fields
• Removed IE-specific Meta-Tags and paths to favicon and apple-touch-icon from HTML head
• Inline SVG Logo (finally!)
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v3.2 (17.01.2016)

• Now using the BEM methodology, a „highly useful, powerful and simple naming convention to make your front-end code easier to read and understand, easier to work with, easier to scale, more robust and explicit and a lot more strict.“ Read more at getbem.com
• Color variables organized in a Sass map
• Changed grid naming from „flexrow“ to „grid“ and „col“ to „grid__cell“
• Extended grid settings: You can now set various gutter widths by class name
• Removed modules „Expandable“ and „Accordion“ since they are not necessarily needed in your project (You can still grab them on Codepen though: Expandable and Accordion).
• Minor fixes and enhancements

Version v3.1 (23.08.2015)

• HTML-StarterKit now includes a basic accordion and expandable content that works with super little js
• New button styles, including three different sizes, ghost buttons and a combo-button
• Simplified file hierarchy by moving all scss partials to ‚components‘
• Optimized a hell lot more for performance sake (removed jQuery for example… :)

Version v3.0 (04.05.2015)

• HTML-StarterKit now comes written in SCSS (Very beta! Feel free to comment)
• Rather than limiting the body to a fixed width, now each section has its own inner-wrapper (.) for more flexibility.
• Supported IE version: 9+

Version v2.5 (05.11.2014)

• Added the new main-element to global CSS-Reset
• Added a new version of Respond.js (to support the new main-element)

Version v2.4 (03.08.2014)

• Aaaaand… Modernizr is off again. Just because there ARE cases you won't need it. One request / blocking element saved.
• If you care about IE8: HTMLShiv is now included inline in the head, wrapped in a conditional comment (previously part of Modernizr). Another request / blocking element saved.
• Added "-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;" to the CSS to improve font rendering in Firefox on Mac OS X

Version v2.3 (30.03.2014)

• Added Box-Sizing Reset in CSS
• Re-added modernizr.js as there is hardly any case you don't need it
• Minor performance tweaks and bug-fixing

Version v2.2 (13.11.2013)

• Switched font-size unit to rem (including fallback for IE8) for FlexRows and FlexForm
• Removed modernizr.js and added html5shiv.js instead
• Removed all apple-touch-icons but one
• Fixed link to local jQuery fallback
• Moved font-related declarations from ‘body’ to ‘html’
• Minor CSS changes

Version v2.1 (13.10.2013)

• NEW! Responsive tables based on Stephen Hays approach – which is just plain brilliant (http://www.the-haystack.com/2013/09/24/responsive-scrollable-tables/)
• Updated jQuery to version 1.10.2 (latest version that works with older IE versions)
• jQuery now loaded via Google CDN with local fallback
• Splitted up polyfills.js and moved files into separate folder to simplify individual usage.

Version v2.02 (06.10.2013)

• Performance tweaks (optimized images, included additional minified styles.css and removed webfonts – yeah, again)

Version v2.01 (01.10.2013)

• Minor bugfix

Version v2.0 (30.09.2013)

• NEW! English version!
• NEW! FlexRow cols now float using display: inline-block rather than float and have a fixed width gutter (see faux margin with borders for more on this: http://codepen.io/zitrusfrisch/pen/cKDLj). Say “Bye bye” to Clearfix! :)
• NEW! FlexForm, a simple, responsive form template including new HTML5 input types, like URL, search, tel and others.
• Replaced all IDs by classes (e.g. #masthead is now .masthead) to avoid specificity
• Added new Apple-Touch-Icons sizes introduced with iOS7
• Screwed IE7 support: All fixes and hacks for IE7 have been removed from style.css

Version v1.5 (31.08.2013)

• Merged base.css into styles.css to save a http-request
• Webkit browsers now hide placeholder when focussing input fields
• Added .htacces-file for gzipping, caching and other stuff to speed up performance (based on https://github.com/cferdinandi/htaccess)

Version v1.4 (17.06.2013)

• Removed hgroup and dialog tags from base.css as they were dropped from HTML5 spec
• Switched order of Modernizr and CSS files (Modernizr now loads after CSS as recommended by the Modernizr creators)

Version v1.3 (25.03.2013)

• NEW! Introducing FlexRows, a flexible grid to get your content in shape.
• Removed web fonts
• Switched from PHP to HTML
• Deleted from base.css (deprecated)

Version v1.2 (10.02.2013)

• Added Mediaquery for Retina / High DPI Displays (https://gist.github.com/3446599)
• Updated jQuery to version 1.9.1

Version v1.1 (23.01.2013)

• Updated jQuery to version 1.9.0
• Removed empty placeholder pseudoclass (Triggers weird bug in Firefox)
• Added links for Favicon and Apple-Touch-Icons to the header and DEMO-Icons

Version v1.06 (02.01.2013)

• Back to Respond.js (see version v1.04), as the CSS3-Mediaqueries script seems to have issues in combination with Selectivizr plugins.
• Merged all IE polyfills into polyfills.js
• Bug fixed in iOS.js

Version v1.05 (17.12.2012)

• Small improvements

Version v1.04 (12.12.2012)

• Respond.js durch CSS3-Mediaqueries.js ersetzt

Version v1.03 (04.12.2012)

• Optimized fix for iOS Scaling Bug

Version v1.02 (26.11.2012)

• Updated jQuery to version 1.8.3
• Small bugfixes

Version v1.01 (24.11.2012)

• Small bugfixes

Version v1.0 (20.12.2012)

• Initial public release

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