HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.
This project is the product of over 10 years of iterative development and community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you're free to architect your code in the way that you want.
Choose one of the following options:
Download the latest stable release from
html5boilerplate.com. This zip file is a
snapshot of the dist
folder. On Windows, Mac and from the file manager on
Linux unzipping this folder will output to a folder named something like
html5-boilerplate_v7.3.0
. From the command line will need to create a
folder and unzip the contents into that folder.
mkdir html5-boilerplate
unzip html5-boilerplate*.zip -d html5-boilerplate
Clone the git repo — git clone https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git
- and checkout the
tagged release
you'd like to use. The dist
folder represents the latest version of the
project for end users.
Install with npm: npm install html5-boilerplate
or yarn: yarn add html5-boilerplate
. The resulting
node_modules/html5-boilerplate/dist
folder represents the latest version of
the project for end users. Depending on what you want to use and how you want
to use it, you may have to copy and paste the contents of that folder into
your project directory.
Using our new create-html5-boilerplate
project, instantly fetch the latest npm published package (or any version
available on npm) with npx
, npm init
or yarn create
without having to
install any dependencies. Running the following npx
command installs the
latest version into a folder called new-site
npx create-html5-boilerplate new-site
cd new-site
npm install
npm start
Normalize.css
for CSS normalizations and common bug fixesModernizr
for feature
detectionApache Server Configs
that improve the web site's performance and securityconsole
statements causing JavaScript
errors in older browsers.This doesn't mean that HTML5 Boilerplate cannot be used in older browsers, just that we'll ensure compatibility with the ones mentioned above.
If you need legacy browser support you can use HTML5 Boilerplate v6 (IE9/IE10) or HTML5 Boilerplate v5 (IE 8). They are no longer actively developed.
Take a look at the documentation table of contents. This documentation is bundled with the project which makes it available for offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you want to write about your project.
Hundreds of developers have helped to make the HTML5 Boilerplate. Anyone is welcome to contribute, however, if you decide to get involved, please take a moment to review the guidelines:
The code is available under the MIT license.