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

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[HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com)
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[](#html5-boilerplate)

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

This project is the product of many years of iterative development and combined 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.

- Source:
- Homepage:
- Twitter: [@h5bp](http://twitter.com/h5bp)

Quick start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

Choose one of the following options:

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

Features
--------

[](#features)

- HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
- Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
- Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
- Includes [Normalize.css](http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/) for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
- The latest [jQuery](http://jquery.com/) via CDN, with a local fallback.
- The latest [Modernizr](http://modernizr.com/) build for feature detection.
- IE-specific classes for easier cross-browser control.
- Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
- Useful CSS helpers.
- Default print CSS, performance optimized.
- Protection against any stray `console.log` causing JavaScript errors in IE6/7.
- An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
- Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
- Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
- "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
- Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Take a look at the [documentation table of contents](doc/TOC.md). This documentation is bundled with the project, which makes it readily available for offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you want to write about your project.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Anyone and everyone is welcome to [contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md). Hundreds of developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today.

###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity31

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~163 days

Total

2

Last Release

4678d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25086?v=4)[Rob Loach](/maintainers/RobLoach)[@RobLoach](https://github.com/RobLoach)

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Top Contributors

[![RobLoach](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25086?v=4)](https://github.com/RobLoach "RobLoach (8 commits)")[![lmammino](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/205629?v=4)](https://github.com/lmammino "lmammino (2 commits)")

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Tags

HTML5CSS3

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