Shoelace.css – a free CSS boilerplate
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.

        
          
            
              
              
                Works with all frameworks 🧩
                Works with CDNs 🚛
                Fully customizable with CSS 🎨
                Includes a dark theme 🌛
                Built with accessibility in mind ♿️
                First-class React support ⚛️
                Built-in localization 💬
                Open source 😸
                
                  More awesome than ever
                  
                
              
            
            
            
          
          
          
            Quick Start
          
          Add the following code to your page.
          
          <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@shoelace-style/shoelace@2.18.0/cdn/themes/light.css" />
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@shoelace-style/shoelace@2.18.0/cdn/shoelace-autoloader.js"></script>

          Now you have access to all of Shoelace’s components! Try adding a button:

          
                <sl-button>Click me</sl-button>

              

          
          
            New to Web Components?
          
          
            TL;DR – we finally have a way to create
            our own HTML elements
            and use them in any framework we want!
          
          
            Thanks to the popularity of frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React, component-driven development has
            become a part of our every day lives. Components help us encapsulate styles and behaviors into reusable
            building blocks. They make a lot of sense in terms of design, development, and testing.
          
          Unfortunately, framework-specific components fail us in a number of ways:
          
            You can only use them in the framework they’re designed for 🔒
            Their lifespan is limited to that of the framework’s ⏳
            
              New frameworks/versions can lead to breaking changes, requiring substantial effort to update components 😭
            
          
          
            Web components solve these problems. They’re
            supported by all modern browsers, they’re framework-agnostic, and they’re
            part of the standard, so we know they’ll be supported for many years to come.
          
          This is the technology that Shoelace is built on.
          
            What Problem Does This Solve?
          
          
            Shoelace provides a collection of professionally designed, highly customizable UI components built on a
            framework agnostic technology. Why spend hundreds of hours (or more) building a design system from scratch?
            Why make a component library that only works with one framework?
          
          With Shoelace, you can:
          
            Start building things faster (no need to roll your own buttons)
            Build multiple apps with different frameworks that all share the same UI components
            Fully customize components to match your existing designs
            Incrementally adopt components as needed (no need to ditch your framework)
            Upgrade or switch frameworks without rebuilding foundational components
          
          
            If your organization is looking to build a design system,
            Shoelace will save you thousands of dollars. All the foundational components you need are right here, ready to be customized for your brand. And since
            it’s built on web standards, browsers will continue to support it for many years to come.
          
          
            Whether you use Shoelace as a starting point for your organization’s design system or for a fun personal
            project, there’s no limit to what you can do with it.
          
          
            Browser Support
          
          Shoelace is tested in the latest two versions of the following browsers.
          
          
          
          
          Critical bug fixes in earlier versions will be addressed based on their severity and impact.
          
            If you need to support IE11 or pre-Chromium Edge, this library isn’t for you. Although web components can
            (to some degree) be polyfilled for legacy browsers, supporting them is outside the scope of this project. If
            you’re using Shoelace in such a browser, you’re gonna have a bad time. ⛷
          
          
            License
          
          
            Shoelace was created in New Hampshire by
            Cory LaViska. It’s available under the terms of the
            MIT license.
          
          
            Attribution
          
          Special thanks to the following projects and individuals that help make Shoelace possible.
          
            
              Components are built with
              Lit
            
            
              Component metadata is generated by the
              Custom Elements Manifest Analyzer
            
            
              Documentation is powered by
              11ty
            
            
              CDN services are provided by
              jsDelivr
            
            
              Color primitives are inspired by
              Tailwind
            
            
              Icons are courtesy of
              Bootstrap Icons
            
            
              The homepage illustration is courtesy of
              unDraw
            
            
              Positioning of dropdowns, tooltips, et al is handled by
              Floating UI
            
            
              Animations are courtesy of
              animate.css
            
            
              Search is powered by
              Lunr
            
            
              The Shoelace logo was designed with a single shoelace by
              Adam K Olson
            
          
        
      