The CSS
HTML5 Boilerplate's CSS includes:
This starting CSS does not rely on the presence of conditional class names, conditional style sheets, or Modernizr.js, and it is ready to use no matter what your development preferences happen to be.
Normalize.css
In order to make browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards, we include Normalize.css - a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets.
As opposed to CSS resets, Normalize.css:
- targets only the styles that need normalizing
- preserves useful browser defaults rather than erasing them
- corrects bugs and common browser inconsistencies
- improves usability with subtle improvements
- doesn't clutter the debugging tools
- has better documentation
For more information about Normalize.css, please refer to its project page.
style.css
Several base styles are included that build upon Normalize.css. These styles:
provide basic typography settings that improve text readability
protect against unwanted
text-shadowduring text highlightingtweak the default alignment of some elements (e.g.:
img,video,fieldset,textarea)style the prompt that is displayed to users using an outdated browser
These styles are included in style.css. See the style.css project documentation for a full discussion of these styles.