You should use Skeleton if you're feeling like whole UI frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation are overkill for your project and you just want the basics. Skeleton only styles a handful of standard HTML elements and includes a grid, but that's often more than enough to get started. In fact, this site is built on Skeleton and has just over 100 lines of custom CSS.
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Type is all set with the rems, so font-sizes and spacial relationships can be responsively sized based on a single <html> font-size property. Out of the box, Skeleton never changes the <html> font-size, but it's there in case you need it for your project. All measurements are still base 10 though so, an <h1> with 5.0remfont-size just means 50px.
Buttons come in two basic flavors in Skeleton. The standard <button> element is plain, whereas the .button-primary button is vibrant and prominent. Button styles are applied to a number of appropriate form elements, but can also be arbitrarily attached to anchors with a .button class.
Forms are a huge pain, but hopefully these styles make it a bit easier. All inputs, select, and buttons are normalized for a common height cross-browser so inputs can be stacked or placed alongside each other.
Code styling is kept basic – just wrap anything in a <code> and it will appear like this. For blocks of code, wrap a <code> with a <pre>.
Be sure to use properly formed table markup with <thead> and <tbody> when building a table.
Skeleton uses media queries to serve its scalable grid, but also has a list of queries for convenience of styling your site across devices. There are two sets of queries. The first set is mobile-first, meaning it targets min-width. The other set is desktop-first, meaning it targets max-width. Mobile-first queries are how Skeleton's grid is built and is a preferrable method of organizing CSS. The sizes for the queries are:
Skeleton has a number of small utility classes that act as easy-to-use helpers. Sometimes it's better to use a utility class than create a whole new class just to float an element.
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Skeleton's version history is available on Github.
Skeleton was built using Sublime Text 3 and designed with Sketch. The typeface Raleway was created by Matt McInerney and Pablo Impallari. Code highlighting by Google's Prettify library. Icons in the header are all derivative work of icon from The Noun Project. Feather by Zach VanDeHey, Pen (with cap) by Ed Harrison, Pen (with clicker) by Matthew Hall, and Watch by Julien Deveaux.