Questions tagged [blueprint-css]

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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CSS Frameworks like 960 and Blueprint?

This is at the framework level, not dealing directly with CSS, so posting to SO. I just learned about the existence of CSS frameworks. 960 Grid System seems pretty awesome, then I found Blueprint, which seems to do the same thing and more. Is there…
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Compass blueprint mixins undefined

I am trying to get compass/sass/haml working using blueprint but not having any luck with the blueprint mixins +column(24) just results in Sass syntax error undefined mixin column I'm sure I am just missing something really obvious but the…
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Trying to install Blueprint with Compass

I'm trying to install Blueprint with Compass but it's not working. I search on different websites/forums and I'm not finding my answer. My issue: $ gem install compass-blueprint Fetching: compass-blueprint-0.0.1.gem (100%) Successfully installed…
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twitter bootstrap as our "go to" framework?

We've been using html5 boilerplate with blueprint css for the last couple of projects. With some tweaks, we were able to make blueprint "responsive". We like blueprint, but are concerned it may be a bit "dated", from what little we know about gui…
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Switching from Blueprint to Twitter Bootstrap

I'm replacing Blueprint with Twitter Bootstrap in a Rails 3.1 application. I've followed the example in the Railscast and I have it working in that example. However, when I try to put it into my application the collapse functionality in the navbar…
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blueprintcss, Two Span-12s inside One Span-24?

I'm using a span-24 div as full-width page and i have some other span-24s inside that one. But i want to have two span-12s side-by-side inside the main span-24. When i try this, they end up on top of each other. Here is my code -
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Rails tutorial, odd CSS formatting on site

You can see it here. The site looks fine when I remove Blueprint. I've tried adding Bootstrap and the same issue occurs. I've been following this (excellent) tutorial.
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web2py with blueprint

Is using blueprint with web2py common or recommended? Does blueprint conflict with the default web2py stylesheets and layout.html? What is the correct way to include blueprint in a web2py application? I presume the blueprint directory should be…
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Can't get stylesheet to show up in ruby app

I have the following code in my application.erb file in my layouts directory. I have the blueprint directory inside of public/stylesheets however the link doesn't work. It says it is supposed to be located at
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Sticky footer does not work with IE8

I have a page with a sticky footer. Works fine with Firefox but not with IE8. The page is built on Blueprint and I used the margin-top: -48px; technique. #wrapper { position: relative; min-height: 100%; } #footer_container { position:…
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Rails 3.1, Blueprint CSS and Heroku

I've searched through this group and the rest of the Web and found bits and pieces of a solution to my problem, but haven't found anything that really works. Here is my issue. I'm running Rails 3.1 and deploying to the Heroku cedar stack. I have…
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Configuring Blueprint in Rails 3.1

I am new to web development using rails. I was wondering what the steps are to adding blueprint to my application are. I have looked for a tutorial but the once I have found seem to assume some prior knowlede and that a few steps were completed. …
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blueprint container inside other container, set height: 100%

Good Morning, I'm working with blueprint css framework. My problem is that I can't set height: 100% of a container that is inside in an external container. (container is intended as container blueprint css class). I want that my internal container…
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Blueprint CSS - pages not inheriting from application layout page

I have the following in my application layout page
<%= render 'layouts/header' %>
<%= yield %>
<%= render 'layouts/footer' %>
In my home page, I have the…
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Linking to Blueprint CSS tabs?

I'm using Blueprint CSS as the framework for a website I'm currently building, I'm also using the tabs plugin (http://blueprintcss.org/demos/tabs.html) which works really nicely, however I'd like to be able to directly link to a tab (from the…
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