classless-css
A list of classless CSS themes/frameworks with screenshots (by dbohdan)
sakura
:cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme. (by oxalorg)
| classless-css | sakura | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 24 | |
| 2,136 | 4,278 | |
| 0.3% | 0.4% | |
| 3.1 | 5.5 | |
| 4 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| HTML | HTML | |
| - | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
classless-css
Posts with mentions or reviews of classless-css.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
- A Drop-In CSS Framework That Transforms Bare HTML into Modern Designs
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Every HTML Element
> I do like to use the full HTML element set, and, with scoped CSS, to style the elements, rather than have loads of divs with loads of class attributes. It all looks so much neater, particularly if the unstyled CSS looks rather good.
From a discussion on HN a few days ago, I bookmarked this: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
For the most common types of front-end work one needs to do, classless CSS is enough.
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Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on CS 1.6 UI
no suggestions in this reply, nor can I speak to if this is a good or bad idea, but you may like to learn about "classless css frameworks", basically just targeting the html5 semantics
https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css
also, https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks
others may give you a _real_ recommendation. cheers
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido com Frameworks CSS Classless ou Class-Light
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido com Frameworks CSS Classless ou Class-Light com CDN
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido com Frameworks CSS Classless ou Class-Light sem CDN
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido Usando Tailwind como um Frameworks CSS Classless
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido Usando CSS Zero como um Frameworks CSS Classless
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido Usando CSS-Zero como um Frameworks CSS Classless
sakura
Posts with mentions or reviews of sakura.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-29.
- My website is ugly because I made it
- A Drop-In CSS Framework That Transforms Bare HTML into Modern Designs
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido com Frameworks CSS Classless ou Class-Light sem CDN
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido Usando Tailwind como um Frameworks CSS Classless
- Ruby on Rails 8 - Frontend Rápido com Frameworks CSS Classless ou Class-Light
- Sakura: A minimal CSS framework/theme
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Create an Astro blog from scratch
There are many classless CSS options. For this project (and my blog), I'm going to be using Sakura. You can use any of those options.
- Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS
- The classless and class-light CSS aproaches
What are some alternatives?
When comparing classless-css and sakura you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-css-frameworks - List of awesome CSS frameworks in 2025
pico - Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
modern-normalize - 🐒 Normalize browsers' default style
Sequence - The responsive CSS animation framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications.
fancyInput - Makes typing in input fields fun with CSS3 effects