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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Features :

  • 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!

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Blueprint framework

I'm currently restyling my web application, my friend suggested me to use a framework as blueprint, can someone please tell me if it's a good choice or if it has some cons ? Thanks
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How to use a CSS Framework with Yesod?

I want to use the Blueprint CSS Framework with Yesod. Are there any best practices? Because Yesod uses templates for CSS, it looks to me that I cannot use the .css-files directly? Do I have to rename them to .lucius-files? How do I add the CSS to…
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Blueprint CSS, Ruby on Rails 3.1 and "CSS conditions"

I'm migrating my application to Rails 3.1 and I use the blueprint css framework. As seen in the setup instructions at blueprint's github page there's is a condition that needs to be true for the ie.css file to be included. In rails 3.1 we place…
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Blueprint CSS framework (compress.rb) will not "compile" some changes

I use Sass to compose my CSS, and Blueprint as my framework. Since I'm using these tools for a Django application, my workflow is: Edit scss file in emacs while sass --watch is running Save the file and alt-tab to terminal to run ruby compress.rb…
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How to center a div with BlueprintCSS?

So I have div within the container class. How do I center the div, so that it properly adds empty space equally to both sides, depending on the width of the div?
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Blueprint CSS affecting appearance of jQuery datepicker

Does anyone have any pointers how to to fix the styling issue presented when using jquery ui's datepicker along side blueprint css framework? Specifically the table with the dates appears larger (wider) than the container it sits in.
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Is 960 more conducive to good design than Blueprint?

Comparing sites designed in 960 with sites designed using Blueprint, it seems to me the 960 sites are a lot sharper. I don't know if this is a coincidence of the samples I'm looking at. Or is there something about 960 that is more conducive to good…
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Is it Blueprint CSS framework out of date?

I want to use blueprint css framework but last version release was over year ago. Neither commits in Github repository. Has it being mantained?
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using blueprint css within a jquery ui tab

I'm using blueprint to do a complex form layout that involves jquery-ui tabs, but when I try to use the blueprint span-x divs within the jquery-ui tabs, the formatting gets all screwy....
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Blueprint CSS centering in grid

Just started using Blueprint CSS and now playing with the grids but have a simple problem. I created a navbar at the top of my page with each link 2 columns wide (using span-2). What is the right way to center these links inside the grid columns…
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CSS3 framework overload-comparisons of each?

I’m a newcomer to CSS3 and at the moment I’m overwhelmed by the plethora of options when it comes to frameworks. Can anyone point me to an objective comparison of each, and when it makes sense to use one over another? A couple of scenarios: if…
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Blueprint / Yii table colors

I am having two issues similar to the question previously posed on table colors with Blueprint CSS (alternating rows): I was able to override the zebra colors by changing both the th, td, caption to the same color as the tbody tr:nth child(even). …
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how to center a box using blueprint css framework

My _base.scss contains the following $blueprint-grid-columns: 12; $blueprint-container-size: 750px; $blueprint-grid-margin: 0px; // Use this to calculate the width based on the total width. // Or you can set $blueprint-grid-width to a fixed value…
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Compass/Sass, Blueprint with ASP.NET/MVC

I would like to use Compass/Sass with Blueprint or 960 with ASP.NET MVC. I am aware of Paul Bett's wonderful NuGet Package SassAndCoffee http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2011/06/06/new-release-sassandcoffee-0-9-now-not-glacially-slow/ But how…
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How do I organize imports in Compass/Blueprint?

I have researched SASS and Blueprint seperately, and think I understand how they work, and I have set up my project directory using the compass CLI tool, but I am at a loss as to the correct way to organize my project. After initializing my project…
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