Which CSS frameworks offer responsive web design?

Overview

Responsive web design and development resolve the problem of different screen resolutions. Instead of cutting down the vital information from a page, it caters to the problem by shrinking or expanding the size of those objects placed on the website, depending upon the screen size.

Let's look at the illustrations below for a better understanding:

Many CSS frameworks offer responsive web designs. In this Answer, we discuss a few of the most used ones are:

1. Bootstrap
2. Tailwind CSS
3. Tachyons

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most-used free, open source front-end framework that assists developers in creating responsive web designs efficiently.

We can use it by installing it via the package manager.

Or, we can include the CDN in the HTML header:

We can use Bootstrap for different button styles, as follows:

In the code above:

• Lines 13–20: We use different built-in Bootstrap button classes, like class="btn btn-default" and class="btn btn-success">, which offer quick and responsive styling for our default and success button.

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is another front-end framework that helps create quick, modern, and responsive websites by negating the developer's CSS code.

We can install it with the following commands:

We can change the background color on hovering a mouse using Tailwind CSS, as follows:

In the code above:

• Line 14–16: We use a built-in class, class="p-6 hover:bg-red-600 hover:text-white transition duration-300 ease-in". Tailwind CSS helps create a smooth and responsive transition with the option of giving a duration value.
• Line 17: We use class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-3", which offers a quick change of font size and weight.

Tachyons

A tachyon particle moves faster than light, and so does Tachyons CSS's front-end framework, which makes the development of responsive websites easier as well as faster.

To start using this framework, we can paste the following command in the head section of the HTML:

Or, we can get the Tachyons framework using a package manager:

We can changing the widths of elements by using in-built classes in Tachyons, as follows:

In the code above:

• Lines 10–12: We use three different width classes of "w1", "w5" and "w7" from the Tachyons framework. These offer responsive default widths for each class.