# [HTML5 Boilerplate](https://html5boilerplate.com/)

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HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building
fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

This project is the product of 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.

* Homepage: [https://html5boilerplate.com/](https://html5boilerplate.com/)
* Source: [https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate)
* Twitter: [@h5bp](https://twitter.com/h5bp)


## Quick start

Choose one of the following options:

1. Download the latest stable release from
   [html5boilerplate.com](https://html5boilerplate.com/).
2. Clone the git repo — `git clone
   https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git` - and checkout the
   [tagged release](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/releases)
   you'd like to use.


## Features

* HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
* Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
* Includes:
  * [`Normalize.css`](https://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/)
    for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes
  * [`jQuery`](https://jquery.com/) via CDN with [SRI Hash](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity) and a local fallback
  * A custom build of [`Modernizr`](https://modernizr.com/) for feature
    detection
  * [`Apache Server Configs`](https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache)
    that, among other, improve the web site's performance and security
* Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
* Useful CSS helper classes.
* Default print styles, performance optimized.
* An optimized version of the Google Universal Analytics snippet.
* Protection against any stray `console` statements causing JavaScript
  errors in older browsers.
* "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
* Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.


## Browser support

* Chrome *(latest 2)*
* Edge *(latest 2)*
* Firefox *(latest 2)*
* Internet Explorer 9+
* Opera *(latest 2)*
* Safari *(latest 2)*

*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 v4](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v4) (IE 6+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+),
or [HTML5 Boilerplate v5](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v5.0.0) (IE8+). They are no longer actively developed.


## Documentation

Take a look at the [documentation table of contents](dist/doc/TOC.md).
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.


## Contributing

Hundreds of developers have helped to make the HTML5 Boilerplate. Anyone is welcome to [contribute](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md),
however, if you decide to get involved, please take a moment to review
the [guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md):

* [Bug reports](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#bugs)
* [Feature requests](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#features)
* [Pull requests](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests)


## License

The code is available under the [MIT license](LICENSE.txt).