Blueprint CSS Framework Readme

Welcome to Blueprint! This is a CSS framework designed to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your own CSS on. Here are some of the features BP provides out-of-the-box:

An easily customizable grid
Sensible default typography
A typographic baseline
Perfected browser CSS reset
A stylesheet for printing
Powerful scripts for customization
Absolutely no bloat!

Project Info

Web: http://blueprintcss.org
Source: http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css
Wiki: http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/wikis/home
Bug/Feature Tracking: http://blueprintcss.lighthouseapp.com

Setup Instructions

Here’s how you set up Blueprint on your site.

Upload the “blueprint” folder in this folder to your server, and place it in whatever folder you’d like. A good choice would be your CSS folder.
Add the following three lines to every <head/> of your site. Make sure the three href paths are correct (here, BP is in my CSS folder):
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Remember to include trailing slashes (" />") in these lines if you’re using XHTML.
For development, add the .showgrid class to any container or column to see the underlying grid. Check out the plugins directory for more advanced functionality.

Tutorials

Files in Blueprint

The framework has a few files you should check out. Every file in the src directory contains lots of (hopefully) clarifying comments.

Compressed files (these go in the HTML):

blueprint/screen.css
blueprint/print.css
blueprint/ie.css

Source files:

blueprint/src/reset.css
This file resets CSS values that browsers tend to set for you.
blueprint/src/grid.css
This file sets up the grid (it’s true). It has a lot of classes you apply to <div/> elements to set up any sort of column-based grid.
blueprint/src/typography.css
This file sets some default typography. It also has a few methods for some really fancy stuff to do with your text.
blueprint/src/forms.css
Includes some minimal styling of forms.
blueprint/src/print.css
This file sets some default print rules, so that printed versions of your site looks better than they usually would. It should be included on every page.
blueprint/src/ie.css
Includes every hack for our beloved IE6 and 7.

Scripts:

lib/compress.rb
A Ruby script for compressing and customizing your CSS. Set a custom namespace, column count, widths, output paths, multiple projects, and semantic class names. See commenting in compress.rb or run $ruby compress.rb -h for more information.
lib/validate.rb
Validates the Blueprint core files with the W3C CSS validator.

Other:

blueprint/plugins/
Contains additional functionality in the form of simple plugins for Blueprint. See individual readme files in the directory of each plugin for further instructions.
tests/
Contains html files which tests most aspects of Blueprint. Open tests/index.html for further instructions.

Extra Information