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What is CSS Framework?

It is a toolkit that offers ready-made design templates and rules to quickly beautify the appearance of web pages.

Overview

When creating a website, instead of writing from scratch how the buttons, menus or fonts will look, you use the ready-made structures offered by these frameworks. This allows you to make professional-looking sites in much less time.

Analogy: It's like using ready-made sets of doors, windows and furniture when building a house; You build the basic structure, but you choose the details from the ready-made set.

How it works

You add the Framework's files to your project and use the ready-made names it offers in your codes.

Where it is used

It is used in the interface development processes of websites.

Commonly confused with

May be confused with utility-first; A utility-first approach is a framework, and a framework is a tool that may or may not support this approach.

Frequently asked questions

Aren't all sites similar?

Frameworks are flexible; You can create original designs by adding your own colors and style.

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