Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.
For the most part, it is very simple to use, however, to be able to make some form elements and others look exactly how we want, we ended up using some JS plugins, which means it takes a little bit more effort to integrate them into your project.
Since Flat UI is built on top of Bootstrap as a theme, you can use it in your Bootstrap 3 project. We did not modify any line of Bootstrap, so you will be safe using Flat UI in your ongoing project (unless you hacked it yourself!) :)
We provide you with the CSS and the Less sources.
flat-ui.css
into your project folder and including it in your template/html
page: <link href="dist/css/flat-ui.css"
rel="stylesheet">
The easiest way to start is to use our start-up template (from
/dist
folder) where all the files are already included and ready to use
(The JS plugins are included, but not initialized. You will have to
initialize them as needed).
Flat UI Free have the following structure:
flat-ui/ ├── dist/ | ├── css/ | | ├── vendors/ │ | ├── flat-ui.css │ | └── flat-ui.min.css | ├── js/ | | ├── vendors/ │ | ├── flat-ui.js │ | └── flat-ui.min.js | ├── fonts/ | | ├── lato/ | | └── glyphicons/ | | ├── flat-ui-icons-regular.eot | | ├── flat-ui-icons-regular.svg | | ├── flat-ui-icons-regular.ttf | | ├── flat-ui-icons-regular.woff | | └── selection.json | ├── img/ | └── index.html ├── docs/ | ├── examples/ | ├── components.html | ├── getting-started.html | └── template.html ├── fonts/ ├── img/ ├── js/ └── less/ ├── mixins/ ├── modules/ ├── flat-ui.less ├── mixins.less └── variables.less
Let's go through this list:
dist/ — the compiled Flat UI boilerplate template. If you like everything and you don't want to change the look of our components, it is better to use version. This is the easiest way to start using Flat UI.
— component examples and documentation.
fonts/ — local version of Lato and icon
font. When integrating this into your project, make sure you copy
all the font files correctly. You might want to change/add some
glyphs. If so, open IcoMoon and
import
selection.json
(at
fonts/glyphicons/
) there to make all glyphs editable.
js/ — we have tried hard to make all our
components look truly "flat." In order to do so we have used some
JS plugins. Most of them are well known, while some of them are
not. The most JS-ified components are the form components
(checkboxes, radios, switches, selects…), since it is not currently
possible to style them identically in all browsers. Look at
docs/assets/js/application.js
for integration examples.
less/ — is where all our stylesheets are located (not preprocessed).
modules/
is where the components themselves
are.mixins/
useful utilities.flat-ui.less
links everything into one single
bundle.mixins.less
helps automate things.variables.less
is where all the default
variables are.External dependencies are managed quickly and easily with Bower. Simply:
bower.json
.
bower install
.
Note: If required, run
npm install -g bower
first to install bower.
Development is quick and easy thanks to Grunt. Simply:
grunt
to build the project with your
updates included, or
grunt server
to build the project, watch
for changes, and provide a local server with source maps and live
reload as you hack away.
Note: If required, run
npm install
first to install grunt with grunt packages.