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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 via Compass in Rails 3.1

I have successfully integrated Compass and Rails 3.1 in this sample app. I am also trying to learn to use Blueprint, so I am trying to replicate the Grid Test in the app. So how do I include Blueprint? The commands described in the documentation are…
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Using Sass + Compass + Blueprint in Rails 3.1 App

I am struggling BIG TIME with getting this framework set up correctly. Has anyone successfully been able to get this working? If so, I would love any and all feedback. Thanks! I'm following the instructions from http://compass-style.org/install/…
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Rails 3.1 and Stylesheet Frameworks

I am building an application in Rails 3.1 and I really like the whole SASS feature. I looked at Compass recently and did also come across some debate discussing the need to use compass anymore in Rails 3.1. Frankly, the things that attracted me to…
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Compass Blueprint mixins not compiling?

I'm trying to get Blueprint (SCSS-Syntax) working with my Rails (3.1) project. To keep it simple at first I set up a plain HTML file (outside my rails project) with some basic blueprint syntax, after installing compass and creating the basic scss…
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Does Blueprint prevent a 100% background-size for images in CSS?

I'm trying to create a website with a background-size:100% 100% css rule. It's an image that sits behind the content and is designed in such a way that no matter the dimensions of the browser window it still works well. I think the rule I have (as…
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Using compass + blueprint in rails. How to get visual grid overlay

I am sure I saw at one point a technique to overlay a grid on top of the page when using blueprint + compass. Any idea on how to turn this on.
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Blueprint CSS - High level rules for using it

I started using Blueprint CSS at about 8AM EDT this morning and I find myself having the following questions: When do I use the container class? How should I think of container conceptually? Do container classes need a span class? Why or why…
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What's up with all these CSS frameworks and others?

I'm digging into the world of CSS and I'm having some difficulties understanding the use of everything that exists. There is LESS, SASS, Compass, Blueprint, HAML, etc. Which ones should I use together? Can someone explain what goes with each other?
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Negative-margin border on an element that is centered with margin: 0 auto;

I have a fixed-width page that I want to add a simple border to with the Border CSS command. However, I don't want this border to balloon the page and cause smaller screens to have a horizontal scrollbar. I'm not too great with CSS, but I know…
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What special features does Compass have?

What features does Compass have that the standard Sass portion of the HAML gem does not?
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Why does blueprint css define a div.class and class with the same styling?

In the linked code for the blueprint CSS framework, there is a style defined for a div.class selector and just the .class selector. Isn't this redundant? Or is there a more subtle reason for defining the class with two…
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Blueprint CSS boxes

I am currently testing out Blueprint to create the layout for a site. So far it has been going great, but now I've run into a problem I'm wondering if there is any elegant solution to. I am using the default 24 column layout and have a situation…
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Why do my login status links not render properly with BlueprintCSS's print.css

I am attempting to implement the BlueprintCSS grid framework in my app and after including the scripts it calls for my links are rendering weird. I have it narrowed down to the print.css. was wandering if anyone has run across this before. Here's…
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Is there a way to make Blueprint CSS grid fluid?

Is there any tool to recalculate px values in % ?
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Using blueprint CSS, is it possible to do the following layout

I would like to do the following layout using blueprint css Page Width = 960px <- 20px -> <------- 600px -------> <- 20px -> <--- 300px ---> <- 20px -> left main content middle right rail right gutter …
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