The best classless CSS frameworks in 2021

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  • sakura

    :cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme.

  • Ever need style for some plain HTML? Then classless CSS frameworks are for you. I started using these when working on code examples for our Best Date Libraries post. The plain HTML examples looked distractingly ugly, but writing I didn't want to write any CSS. I found Sakura, a classless CSS framework. With just one CSS file my examples looked far more polished. And I didn't have to change the HTML at all.

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  • Classless CSS differs from other types of CSS frameworks that target classes. For example, with Bootstrap (the most popular traditional CSS framework) you need to add class="blockquote" to your blockquotes to style them. Or WYSIWYG.css, a "class-light" CSS framework. WYSIWYG.css targets basic HTML elements, but only within a container with class="wysiwyg".

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