HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast,
robust, and adaptable web apps or sites., (*1)
This project is the product of many years of iterative development and combined
community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development philosophy or
framework, so you're free to architect your code in the way that you want., (*2)
Quick start
Choose one of the following options:, (*3)
- Download the latest stable release from
html5boilerplate.com or a custom build from
Initializr.
- Clone the git repo —
git clone
https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git - and checkout the tagged
release you'd like to use.
Features
- HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
- Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
- Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
- Includes Normalize.css for CSS
normalizations and common bug fixes.
- The latest jQuery via CDN, with a local fallback.
- The latest Modernizr build for feature detection.
- IE-specific classes for easier cross-browser control.
- Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
- Useful CSS helpers.
- Default print CSS, performance optimized.
- Protection against any stray
console.log causing JavaScript errors in
IE6/7.
- An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
- Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for
Grade-A performance.
- Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
- "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
- Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.
Documentation
Take a look at the documentation table of contents. This
documentation is bundled with the project, which makes it readily available for
offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you
want to write about your project., (*4)
Contributing
Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. Hundreds of
developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today., (*5)
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