Materialize - Overview

What is Materialize?

Materialize is a UI component library created with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Materialize reusable UI components helps in constructing attractive, consistent, and functional web pages and web apps while adhering to modern web design principles like browser portability, device independence, and graceful degradation.

Some of its salient features are as follows:

• In-built responsive designing.
• Standard CSS with minimal footprint.
• Includes new versions of common user interface controls such as buttons, check boxes, and text fields which are adapted to follow Material Design concepts.
• Includes enhanced and specialized features like cards, tabs, navigation bars, toasts, and so on.
• Requires jQuery javascript library to function properly.
• Cross-browser, and can be used to create reusable web components.
  
• Free to use

Responsive Design

• Materialize has in-built responsive designing so that the website created using Materialize will redesign itself as per the device size.
• Materialize classes are created in such a way that the website can fit any screen size.
• The websites created using Materialize are fully compatible with PC, tablets, and mobile devices.

Extensible

• Materialize is by design very minimal and flat.
• It is designed considering the fact that it is much easier to add new CSS rules than to overwrite existing CSS rules.
• It supports shadows and bold colors.
• The colors and shades remain uniform across various platforms and devices.

And most important of all, it is absolutely free to use.