Getting Started
Responsive design
Responsive design is accomplished by wrappers, flexbox and grid layouts, and various utility classes all controlled by media query breakpoint widths, plus a few utilities controlled by CSS clamp()
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Layouts
For controlling layouts on different viewport dimensions, we have various wrappers and max-width wrappers:
- Wrappers have a max-width, some x-axis padding (for keeping wrapper content away from the sides of screens, thereby preventing legibility problems), and x-axis margin-auto-centering.
- There are also max-width wrappers that are similar to the wrappers above, but without the x-axis padding and margin-auto-centering.
Widths and breakpoint tiers
There are several layout widths built in, used in wrappers, max-width wrappers, offcanvas panel overrides, and several typographic styles.
These pre-set widths are in increments of 256px. These are common device viewport sizes such as 1024px × 768px.
Many of the CSS utility classes have media query width variants. A number of variants are available for each, indicated by a colon-separated prefix that indicates the media query width at which the utility style takes effect.
Width suffix | Breakpoint tier prefix | Default width value |
---|---|---|
-xxs |
None (for all viewport widths) | 16em (256px) |
-xs |
xs: |
32em (512px) |
-sm |
sm: |
48em (768px) |
-md |
md: |
64em (1024px) |
-lg |
lg: |
80em (1280px) |
-xl |
— | 96em (1536px) |
-xxl |
— | 112em (1792px) |
CSS classes that have media query width variants:
- Block utilities
- Flexbox layouts
- Grid layouts
- Block positions
- Floats
- Spacing (margins and paddings) and borders
- Invisibility utilities
- Offcanvas panel components, powered by AlpineJS
There are also some and viewport-height based heights utilities