stranbury / html5bones

The HTML5 template that goes back to basics

HTML5 Bones - The template that goes back to basics

• Author: Ian Devlin iandevlin.com
• Twitter: @iandevlin
• Website: html5bones.com
• Twitter: @html5bones

Purpose

This template can be used as just that, a template to get you going in HTML5, or it can simply be used as a guide via the inline comments when building your own HTML5 page from scratch.

Features

• Contains the most popular HTML5 structural elements and how to use them
• Also contains templates for HTML5 video and audio and how to use them
• Cross-browser compatible, down to and including Internet Explorer 7
• Print CSS included in the main styles.css file
• Normalize.css is included to normalise CSS across browsers
• Inline documentation
• Reduced, non-commented version for main template also included
• MIT license

Documentation

The documentation is contained within inline comments in the various files, but especially main-template.html.

Contribute

You are of course welcome to contribute, this is what GitHub is for.