# mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap

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9,240 stars · 1,105 forks · JavaScript · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap
- Homepage: https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/standard/
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mdbootstrap-material-design-for-bootstrap.md

## Topics

`bootstrap` `bootstrap-4` `bootstrap4` `css` `design` `framework` `frontend` `google-material` `javascript` `material` `material-design` `material-design-for-bootstrap` `mdbootstrap` `ui` `ui-kit` `uikit`

## Description

Material Design for Bootstrap is a front-end UI kit that applies Material Design styling to Bootstrap. It supplies prebuilt CSS, interface components, icons, animations and ready-made page templates for building responsive, mobile-first websites and apps. Components are applied as predefined CSS classes on plain HTML elements, laid out on a column grid that adapts across screen sizes.

Customization happens through SCSS sources. Colors and sizing are exposed as overridable variables, and separate partials for variables and custom rules let projects change the look and add styles without editing the original source files. Sass entry files compile into a complete stylesheet and a lightweight one. Optional components ship as add-on stylesheets, so each page loads only the extras it uses. Precompiled CSS comes in readable and minified forms with source maps for tracing compressed rules back to their origin in browser developer tools.

The component set includes cards, buttons in several sizes and states, modals, feedback alerts, and carousels. For navigation there are vertical side panels and page footers that can hold links, icons, dropdowns, avatars, search forms and company details. A starter page loads the Material styles, icon fonts, Roboto typography and core scripts so a themed site can begin from a working base.

A command-line init step also creates a new project from a preset configuration and publishes it to free hosting with a shareable link. The feature set additionally lists one-step WordPress site creation for travel blogs, online shops, or a combination of both.

## Tags

### User Interface & Experience

- [Material Design UI Kits](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/material-design-ui-kits.md) — Bundles prebuilt CSS, components, icons and templates that combine Bootstrap with Material Design styling for responsive websites.
- [Bootstrap Theme Customization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/bootstrap-theme-customization.md) — Lets projects override color and sizing variables, layer custom styles, and load only the add-on style modules a page needs.
- [Material Design Components](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/component-rendering-engines/material-design-components.md) — Offers a large set of Material Design elements, icons, animations and templates for building responsive, mobile-first sites and apps. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap#readme))
- [Material Design Systems](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/design-token-theming/material-design-systems.md) — Applies Material Design styling, icons, animations and ready-made templates so responsive pages look polished without hand-writing styles.
- [Button Styles](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/button-styles.md) — Styles buttons in several sizes and states, alongside cards with shadows, depth and hover effects. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap/blob/master/README.md))
- [Plugin-Based Component Classes](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/component-utilities/ui-frameworks/rendering-models/composition-rendering-patterns/component-patterns/class-components/plugin-based-component-classes.md) — Applies predefined CSS classes for buttons, cards and other components directly to plain HTML elements, with no component code required.
- [SCSS Variable Overrides](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/css-variable-theming/scss-variable-overrides.md) — Splits styles into core, variables and custom SCSS partials so projects override colors and add rules without editing original source files.
- [Content Cards](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/data-display-components/content-cards.md) — Ships cards that group content and use shadows, depth and hover effects to organize information visually. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap#readme))
- [Prebuilt Stylesheet Bundles](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/design-token-theming/material-design-systems/prebuilt-stylesheet-bundles.md) — Ships precompiled Material Design CSS in full and lite builds, readable and minified, that a site adds by linking a single file. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap/tree/master/css))
- [Column-Based Responsive Grids](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/full-screen-viewport-layouts/responsive-layout-switches/column-based-responsive-grids.md) — Provides a mobile-first column grid with breakpoint classes that reflows layouts across phone, tablet and desktop screens.
- [Responsive Web Interfaces](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/responsive-web-interfaces.md) — Provides mobile-first interface elements such as cards, modals, alerts, carousels, buttons and navigation layouts that adapt across screen sizes.
- [Side Panels and Footers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/side-panels-and-footers.md) — Provides vertical side panels and page footers that hold links, icons, dropdowns, avatars, search forms and company details. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap/blob/master/README.md))
- [Bootstrap Theme Collections](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/styling-theming-systems/content-styling/component-styling-tools/component-styling/theme-style-customizations/bootstrap-theme-collections.md) — Provides a starter HTML page that loads Material styles, icon fonts, Roboto typography and core scripts so a themed Bootstrap site can begin immediately. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap/blob/master/index.html))
- [Theme Variables](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/styling-theming-systems/content-styling/styling-architectures/styling-systems/component-style-customization/css-variable-styling-systems/sass-abstractions/theme-variables.md) — Exposes colors and sizing as overridable Sass variables so one change restyles every component that references them.

### Development Tools & Productivity

- [Sass Compilers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/build-tooling/template-compilation-tools/template-compilation-tools/sass-compilers.md) — Compiles Sass entry files into a complete stylesheet and a lightweight stylesheet during the build.
- [Stylesheet Compilation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/build-tooling/template-compilation-tools/template-compilation-tools/sass-compilers/stylesheet-compilation.md) — Compiles Material Design SCSS entry files into one complete stylesheet bundle and one lightweight bundle for smaller footprints. ([source](https://github.com/mdbootstrap/material-design-for-bootstrap/tree/master/scss))

### Software Engineering & Architecture

- [Modular Stylesheet Architectures](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/modular-stylesheet-architectures.md) — Ships optional components as separate add-on stylesheets layered on the core styles, so pages load only the extras they use.