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.

            When it comes browser support, it is compatible with Chrome 35+, Firefox 31+, Safari 9+, Opera, Edge and IE11+. 











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