Is there any drag and drop CSS based layout generation tool? - css

I have seen 'headways' which is a wordpress framework use this technique to easily create css layout based on 960gs. Is there any such software/tool for generating normal css layout?

http://www.pagecolumn.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/
http://csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php
http://www.cssportal.com/layout-generator/
http://grids.heroku.com/
http://www.gridsystemgenerator.com/
and there are many grid systems to choose from (many are respnsive) 960, 1140, blueprint, gold en grid, bootstrap, etc. etc. etc

Yes did one, for generating normal css and html layout using DnD:
HTML CSS layout generator online
Same for generating pure css and html menus:
HTML CSS menu generator online

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semantic-ui extend existing css classes

I've kind of comparing Bourbon Neat and Semantic-UI - if I don't really have access to the html code it is simple in Neat to apply grid classes to existing HTML code/elements and set up the overall layout/structure of a page with content and sidebar - how would I do that using Semantic UI.

Is it possible to integrate MaterializeCss into Bootstrap

I have asked myself (not tested) if it is possible to integrate both bootstrap and materializecss into the same project
Since both frameworks are for the same purpose and probably overlapping in some class definitions etc. is it still possible to combine both frameworks in order to expand my styling options?
Materialize is not based on Bootstrap nor just a "visual layer", using both frameworks may lead to a lots of incompatibilities or at least overlap a lot as most of their functionalities are redundant (grids, menus, icons, etc).
I personally use this project Bootstrap material design which is a theme for Bootstrap and works very well.
If you don't need/want Bootstrap you can also use Material Design Lite that has been recently released by Google. It is a light CSS framework based on Material Design guidelines. Light in comparison to Angular Material or Polymer also using Material Design guidelines but part of or requiring other javascript frameworks (i.e. Angular).
I added Materialize to my bootstrap website and it worked fine, like JC Borlagdan said though there is some overlapping. I just use a website inspector and (usually right click > inspect element) then just turn off the bootstrap or materialize property to see which one I like more and remove the styling from the one I don't like. Just make sure you get the non minified versions of materialize and bootstrap.
It is possible, I already tested both framework in a single web form, though some properties of the controls overlapped, especially to the <div> tag that calls the container class for the tag.
For the grid, it actually follows still the bootsrap, for some reason, (that I don't know). Because I tried rearranging the order of <script> tags, still bootsrap grid still the one used by the webpage/webform.
you need to set the order of CSS files like
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="css/yourStyle.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
Now you can override bootstrap css classes or ids, and can make your own CSS styles.
You could remove the GRID from materialize.css and just compile a custom bootstrap package with BT GRID and without the buttons, labels etc.
Don't use any BT jQuery Plugin, then compile and load bootstrap.min.css first in your template and then the modded materialize.css and materilize.min.js.
You can also integrate just buttons, cards or colors by picking them out of materialize.css and insert in your template.css / style.css to overwrite
bootstrap styles or to add alternative css classes to your GRID.
I'm not sure that's possible. Material Design is something new from Google, and includes responsive as part of it, while the Bootstrap library is from Twitter and seems to be mostly responsive-oriented.
Check out this conversation : http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/407994-material-design/?hl=material
I suspect that they are not going to be integrated with each other, and will conflict badly, but maybe someone else has more information.

Looking for metro style button(s) CSS

I'm looking for very simple CSS samples for Metro Style Button design (pure CSS w/o JS).
I've already found metroui.co.ua but can't use that since i can't embed additional JS or html tags/classes into project (i know, i know..) all i need is PURE css.
Thanks.
Here is a resource for a CSS only solution
http://pixelsdaily.com/resources/html-css/css-windows-8-metro-buttons/
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/ksM5Y/

What is a CSS framework?

Can anyone tell me about CSS frameworks, and how to use them?
From Wikipedia:
A CSS framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of web pages using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks are usually incorporated as external .css sheets referenced in the HTML . They provide a number of ready-made options for designing and laying out the web page. While many of these frameworks have been published, some authors use them mostly for rapid prototyping, or for learning from, and prefer to 'handcraft' CSS that is appropriate to each published site without the design, maintenance and download overhead of having many unused features in the site's styling.[29]
There is a lot of material on SO (which framework to use, whether to use one at all....)
CSS frameworks are just CSS files. They provide pre-written CSS that you apply to your HTML by using the class names defined by the framework in its CSS file.
Some frameworks are focused on one particular task, e.g. page layout. 960.gs is a good example of this.
Some frameworks are more extensive, and include pre-written CSS for typography, form layout, print styles etc. Blueprint is a good example of this.
Some frameworks also include reset styles, which attempt to reset all styles for all HTML elements to very neutral defaults. These are automatically applied to all HTML elements, so you don’t add classes to your HTML to apply them. A lot of them are based on Eric Meyer’s CSS reset.
CSS frameworks address some or all of the following aspects:
Browser reset. This brings all browsers back to the same baseline styles so that you don't get surprised by something rendering differently in different browsers.
Layouts. They can provide pre-prepared styles that allow you to achieve certain layouts in a simple way. These include columns and also grid layout techniques.
Design. Some provide colour schemes, font selections, typography (line spacings etc.) to quickly give your page an appealing design.
Important to realize that you can mix and match - as long as you're careful.
For instance I don't particularly like YUI's Grid framework (not flexible enough for what I need) - and I don't particularly like Blueprint's typography (because I don't understand what it's doing and I think it's trying to do too much).
So I'm using YUI CSS Reset with YUI Typography and Blueprint grids !
CSS framework is a "wrapper" for all the styles and layouts on your Mark-Up (HTML etc) pages.
An example would be: http://www.blueprintcss.org/
Predefined functionality that has been created intended to serve as a guide for building of something useful.
There different frameworks with different functionality often a (programming tools)layered structure indicating what kind of functionality can be built and how they would work.
CSS frameworks are pre-prepared libraries that are meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of web pages using the Cascading Style Sheets language.
For more info on how to use each framework, please consult the official documentation of that framework.
Examples of popular CSS frameworks :
960 Grid System
Blueprint
Bootstrap
Cardinal
Cascade Framework
Chopstick
Columnal
Emastic
Floatz
Fluidable
Foundation
Gumby Framework
Ink
Jaidee Framework
KNACSS
Kube
Kule CSS Lazy
Malo
Pure
Responsive Grid System
Semantic UI
Skeleton
uikit
Unsemantic
YAML
Yet Another CSS Grid System
YUI CSS grids
Zass

what is the difference between CSS Frameworks and CSS Grids

Please tell me the difference between CSS Frameworks and CSS Grids.
CSS Framework can also be CSS Grid Framework. CSS Grid Frameworks are used for building CSS Layout. There are some frameworks who have other purpose then building layouts, example Hartija http://code.google.com/p/hartija/ is build for web printing.
Also the word "Framework" or "CSS Framework" is not precisely defined, there is one part of the CSS Community who believes that CSS Framework can be only CSS Layout system and the other part refers to any CSS Library.
CSS Grid is specification (set of rules which browser has to follow and understand). It's like a language between you and browser.
CSS Framework is like a wrapper, which includes set of specification,like CSS Grids, Flexbox, CSS2/3 and so on, which provide additional features.
For example: build a layout by grid. CSS Frameworks have own syntax, but actually it's just syntax sugar, which uses CSS specification the the code anyway.

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