Do you use CSS frameworks?

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Building your site on top of Bootstrap makes it much easier to have your website look great on devices of all sizes, across many different browsers.

Read our Rules to Better UI (Bootstrap).

Figure: This website template, along with many others is available as a starting point for building Bootstrap-based sites

❌ Figure: Bad example - Many websites built by using tables for positioning would render poorly on smaller devices, and be hard to use

✅ Figure: Good example - Bootstrap uses many techniques to help make your site look great on different browsers, on all devices

Documentation

Bootstrap on GitHub.

Framework integrations

One of the benefits of using Bootstrap over a library such as Shadcn is that it's widely supported across a large number of Front end frameworks. Take a look at the following Bootstrap integrations for example:

While you can use Bootstrap without any framework specific integrations, using one of the libraries can save you a lot of time managing your css classes and writing boilerplate code while building your Interface. The front end frameworks listed above are ultimately just wrappers for using Bootstrap, which is little more than a CSS library. This means that you can use Bootstrap with any front end framework of your choosing. You can even use it for static html pages provided that you include links to the required JavaScript and CSS files in your pages. This can be achieved by adding a link to bootstrap's CDN in your pages.

Tailwind

TailwindCSS is also recommended. Out of the box, Tailwind is lightweight and will get the job done simply; you can build a website without ever having to look at CSS.

Note: The difference between Tailwind and Bootstrap often comes down to how comfortable you are with writing CSS. Tailwind gives you full control with utility classes, while Bootstrap provides ready-made components that require less custom styling. Read more about these differences.

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