Get started Quick start

Link blades.css manually or via CDN for a dependency-free setup, or use NPM for advanced usage.

There are 4 ways to get started:

A. Install manually

Download CSS archive and link css/blades.css in the <head> of your website.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blades.css" />

B. Usage from CDN 

<link rel="stylesheet" href="
  https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/blades.min.css
"/>

Live example: /pallets/website/blob/main/src/pallets/templates/layout.html

Full list of CSS files available on CDN: /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css

C. Starter projects

D. Install with NPM 

npm install @anyblades/blades

You can use precompiled Pico+Blades CSS (same as CDN version):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="
  node_modules/@anyblades/blades/css/blades.css
" />

Or import standalone Blades CSS sources (without Pico CSS):

@import "@anyblades/blades/standalone";

Live example using Tailwind: /anyblades/buildawesome-starters/blob/main/site-tailwind/styles.css

To install and import both Pico+Blades CSS sources at once:

npm install @anyblades/pico @anyblades/blades

@import "@anyblades/pico";
@import "@anyblades/blades/standalone";

This is exactly how Blades CSS is built itself: /anyblades/blades/blob/main/src/blades.css

Appendix

Starter HTML template 

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blades.css" />
    <title>Hello world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main class="container">
      <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

Standalone versions

Most of internal Blades CSS modules are available as standalone helpers, giving you flexibility to use them with other CSS frameworks:

Module CDN Import from NPM
Breakout container /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/breakout.min.css N/A
Link icon /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/link-icon.min.css N/A
Responsive table /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/responsive-table.min.css N/A
Float labels
/anyblades/float-label-css		 /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/float-label.min.css npm install @anyblades/blades
@import "@anyblades/blades/float-label";
All above together /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/blades.standalone.min.css npm install @anyblades/blades
@import "@anyblades/blades/standalone";
Reset/normalizer
/anyblades/pico		 /npm/@anyblades/pico@2/css/pico.min.css npm install @anyblades/pico
@import "@anyblades/pico";
Experimental "ninja" add-ons /npm/@anyblades/blades@2/css/blades.ninja.min.css npm install @anyblades/blades
@import "@anyblades/blades/ninja";

Live examples:

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