Why Materialize CSS?
Materialize CSS is a responsive front end framework based on Google’s
Material Design. No doubt Bootstrap is the most popular CSS framework that is
used by a large number of people, but if you want to try a new framework and
want to try new designs then materialize is the best choice.
Materialize CSS is
licensed under MIT. It is started by a team of 4 members from Carnegie
Mellon University namely Alvin Wang, Alan Chang, Alex Mark and Kevin Louie. It
is actively maintained by them you can see it’s GitHub page for more information.
It
is very easy to get started using Materialize CSS. Simply download the files
provided by them and place them in respective folders like shown below.
Materialize also follow’s grid
system which has 12 columns just like Bootstrap. It uses Google material icons
for better representation of UI. It has very good documentation, you can start
and get it to work very easily by following the documentation. It has some
basic templates which will make things more easy for you.
It has some
special features like floating action button, pulse, feature discovery,
pushpin, waves and sidenav etc., Unlike Bootstrap you need to use javascript or
Jquery to initialize some components and can also customize options for better
effects.
It also has
features like cards, buttons, breadcrumbs, pagination, preloader, parallax,
pagination and scrollspy and everything you need to build a perfect website.
Materialize
CSS forms have some attractive features like autocomplete, chips, switches
etc., they are very useful in creating interactive user interfaces.
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