Get started Standalone version

There are 4 ways to get started:

Install manually

Download Blades and link assets/blades.standalone.css in the <head> of your website.

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

Usage from CDN

Alternatively, you can use jsDelivr CDN to link assets/blades.standalone.min.css:

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

Living examples: /anyblades/subtle/blob/main/.subtle/package.json

Install with NPM 

npm install @anyblades/pico # optional
npm install @anyblades/blades

Then, import [Pico] and Blades into your CSS:

@import "@anyblades/pico"; /* optional */
@import "@anyblades/blades"; /* can be used standalone */

Living example: /anyblades/build-awesome-starter/blob/main/_styles/styles.css

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="assets/blades.standalone.css" />
    <title>Hello world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main class="container">
      <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

Blades does not replace other frameworks, but empowers them instead:

Tailwind Blades 🥷 Tailwind+Blades 🥷 ✨ Pico ✨ Pico+Blades 🥷 Bootstrap
Type: Utility-first Class-light Hybrid Class-light Class-light Component-based
Written in: JavaScript Modern CSS Hybrid SCSS Modern CSS SCSS
CSS base: modern-normalize
preflight		 ⇢ Inherited modern-normalize
preflight		 normalize
sanitize		 normalize
sanitize		 normalize
reboot
Layout: ☑️ CSS primitives ⇢ Inherited ☑️ CSS primitives ☑️ Basic grid ☑️ Basic grid ✅
Text columns: ☑️ CSS primitives ✅ Docs ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Breakout layout: ❌ ✅ Docs ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Typography: ✅ Plugin ⇢ Inherited ✅ Plugin ✅ ✅ ✅
Responsive tables without wrapper: ❌ ✅ Docs ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Forms: ✅ Plugin ⇢ Inherited ✅ Plugin ✅ ✅ ✅
Float labels: ❌ ✅ Docs ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅

Theme

How it works

@import "./float-label.theme";

html {
  /* Prevent horizontal overflow and scrolling, modern way. */
  overflow-x: clip;

  /* Enable font smoothing */
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

body {
  /* Ensure `body` takes at least the full height of the viewport (using dynamic viewport height for better mobile support). */
  min-height: 100dvh;

  /* Make the `body` a flex container with column layout, and `main` to automatically fill available space. This is useful for creating sticky footers and full-height layouts. */
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  > main {
    flex-grow: 1;
  }

  /* Evaluates the last ~4 lines of text blocks to prevent a single word from sitting on the final line. */
  text-wrap: pretty;

  /* Enable global hyphenation */
  hyphens: auto;
  /* ... except for links and tables which are better (safer) without hyphenation */
  a,
  table {
    hyphens: none;
  }
}

a {
  &:not([href^="#"]) {
    text-decoration-thickness: 1px;

    &:hover {
      text-decoration-thickness: 2px;
    }
  }
}

h1 {
  font-size: 2.5em; /* for pico.css & tw-typography */
  margin-bottom: 1rem; /* for tw-typography */
}

hr {
  margin-block: 2em; /* for pico.css & tw-typography */
}

ul {
  ul {
    font-size: 87.5%;
  }
}

pre {
  small {
    opacity: 75%;
    font-weight: lighter;
  }
}

table {
  th {
    vertical-align: bottom;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  td {
    vertical-align: top;
  }
  pre {
    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
  }
}

[data-jump-to="top"] {
  opacity: 25%;
  &:hover {
    opacity: 75%;
  }

  > i {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0.25rem 0.375rem;
    margin: 0.5rem;
    font-size: 0.75rem;
    color: black;
    border-color: black;
  }
}

.breakout,
.breakout-all {
  > img,
  > figure {
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
  }
}

.faded {
  a {
    text-decoration-style: dotted;
  }
}