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Scaffolding

Scaffolding refers to the global resets and dependencies that Primer is built upon.

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HTML5 doctype

Primer makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype. Include it at the beginning of all your pages.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  ...
</html>

Box-sizing

We reset box-sizing to border-box for every element in Primer. This allows us to more easily assign widths to elements that also have padding and borders.

Built on Normalize

For improved cross-browser rendering, we use Normalize.css to correct small inconsistencies across browsers and devices.