jenil/chota

A micro (3kb) CSS framework

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A really small CSS framework

⚡️ Super light-weight. Just ~3kb (minified + gzipped).
⛔️ No preprocessor, just plug-n-play
📐 Magical 12 column grid
🌈 Easy to extend with CSS variables
🎲 Comes with a handful of components & utilities
✅ Good Semantics
🤡 Supports icons from Icongram

Get started

CDN:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/chota">

npm or yarn:

npm install chota

SASS support

Chota is designed keeping in mind ease-of-use and minimalism, hence it doesn't use any preprocessor or complex build process. If you would still like to extend it further using SASS, head to palmiak's fork.

Browsers support

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	iOS Safari	Samsung	Opera
IE11, Edge	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions	last 2 versions

Contributing

Welcome! Please see our contributing guidelines.

License

css

framework

front-end

minimal

web

website

Project health

Overall

3.9/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

1/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

npm

chota

Latest release

0.9.2 · Mar 22, 2023

Releases this year

Significant stargazers

Rob Loach

570 followers · starred Jun 2023

Daniel G. Taylor

543 followers · starred Feb 2023

Martin Angers

625 followers · starred Feb 2021

ADmad

426 followers · starred Jan 2025

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