Simple prebuilt CSS themes for semantic HTML?
I've been out of the web development game for many years now. I have a dead-simple static HTML page with proper semantic elements (e.g. h1, header, footer, etc.). I'm looking for prebuilt "themes" that I can just stick in a to automatically apply styling to make things a bit prettier.
What are these CSS files called? Any projects on github or similar with a collection of them I can choose from? I can't remember the correct word for these so a web search turns up irrelevant results...
CSS reset?
Somehow it is a path not taken, people would rather write HTML like
And will write endless blog postings that rival A monad is like a Burrito about how much easier it is to write web pages this way.You might consider writing one yourself, this is what CSS was intended to do in the very beginning. If the basic flow behavior and what floats can do is compatible with your vision and you get to the place where you are never surprised about margins collapsing this isn’t hard.
You can get to the quality of an average book or technical report easily that way.
CSS frameworks still reflect the trauma of the original bootstrap and other ‘grid’ layout systems that existed before flex box and grid layouts. Newer generation systems are chock full of bad ideas carried on from the first generation. That kind of system though is going to let you make much more complex layouts (say a typographically complex book, or a magazine, or the layout of a complex UI.)
CSS frameworks generally have the problem of being based on leaky abstractions. You can probably get it to look almost right, but there is going to be something small wrong that drives somebody nuts and if you feel you have to do something about it you’re going to go on quite the adventure of understanding the hard parts of CSS, how the framework works, etc.