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What is boilerX?¶

HTML5 Boilerplate helps you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. Kick-start your project with the combined knowledge and effort of 100s of developers, all in one little package.

boilerX makes getting up and running with HTML5 Boilerplate a click away and is configurable using System Settings. Upon installation boilerplate assets are automatically placed in your assets folder.

Installation¶

Install via Package Manager.

Make sure to remove "sample." from the names of the boilerX elements. This way, when installing the packages any changes you may make won't be overridden.

Example Template¶

boilerX comes with an example Template that simply includes several chunks in the correct order.

[[$bx-head-open]]
[[$bx-head-append]]
[[$bx-head-close]]
[[$bx-container-open]]
[[*content]]
[[$bx-container-close]]
[[$bx-bottom-open]]
[[$bx-bottom-close]]

boilerX Chunks¶

bx-head-open

The bulk of the header, includes CSS and modernizr as well as meta tags.

bx-head-append

Blank, meant to be an easy way to include CSS stylesheets, JavaScript, or meta tags before the closing head tag. This would be a good place to include MetaX.

bx-head-close

Simply closes the body tag.

bx-container-close

Blank, meant to be used for a wrapper div if needed.

bx-container-close

Blank, meant to close anything including in the bx-container-open Chunk.

bx-bottom-open

Deffered JavaScript and Google Analytics tracking code. bx-bottom-close

bx-bottom-close

Closes the body and html tags.

System Settings¶

Name	Description	Default
Google Analytics ID	Optional, if not set will comment out tracking code	UAXXXXXXXX1
CSS Path	Path to your main.css stylesheet	assets/components/boilerx/css/main.css
Normalize CSS Path	Path to your normalize.css stylesheet	assets/components/boilerx/css/normalize.css
jQuery version	Version of jQuery to use with HTML5 Boilerplate	1.9.1
Modernizr.js Path	Path to you modernizr.js path	assets/components/boilerx/js/vendor/modernizr–2.6.2.min.js
Meta Author	Sets meta authors tag	Site Authors
Meta Description	Sets the meta description tag	Not Another Wordpress Site
Meta Viewport	Sets iOS viewport settings	width=device-width,initial-scale=1
IE Edge Mode	Sets IE Edge mode tag	IE=edge,chrome=1
IE Chrome Frame	Version of IE to start displaying Chrome Frame	7
Show Comments	Whether or not to show tips using comments in markup	true

Example Markup¶

Default output generated by the sample.BoilerXTemplate. Replicates HTML5 Boilerplate 4.2.0 markup (h5bp-html5-boilerplate-defe483)

<!--[if lt IE 7]>      <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>         <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>         <html class="no-js lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"  content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
    <title>MODX Revolution - Home</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Site Description">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
    <!-- Place favicon.ico and apple-touch-icon.png in the root directory -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/components/boilerx/css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/components/boilerx/css/main.css">
    <script src="assets/components/boilerx/js/vendor/modernizr-2.6.2.min.js"></script>
    <!-- Use this chunk to append to your head tag -->
</head>
<!-- Use these body classes to target any combination of specific templates, ids, children, and class_keys -->
<body class="t-2 id-1 p-0 ck-modDocument">
    <!--[if lt IE 8]>
    <p class="chromeframe">You are using an <strong>outdated</strong> browser. Please <a href="http://browsehappy.com/">upgrade your browser</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/chromeframe/?redirect=true">activate Google Chrome Frame</a> to improve your experience.</p>
    <![endif]-->
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="assets/components/boilerx/js/vendor/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
    <script src="assets/components/boilerx/js/plugins.js"></script>
    <script src="assets/components/boilerx/js/main.js"></script>
    <!-- Change UAXXXXXXXX1 to be your site's ID by setting bx.ga-id System Setting to auto-enable tracking -->
    <!--script>
        var _gaq=[ ['_setAccount','UAXXXXXXXX1'],['_trackPageview'] ];
        (function(d,t){var g=d.createElement(t),s=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
        g.src=('https:'==location.protocol?'//ssl':'//www')+'.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s)}(document,'script'));
    </script-->
</body>
</html>