# elm-layout

> **Warning**
> This package is currently being developed. The existing API will change in future updates.

Layout HTML using [flexbox](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/). You can think of it as elm-ui light.

## Install

Either enter

```
elm install Orasund/elm-layout
```

into your command line, or you can just copy the [single elm file](https://github.com/Orasund/elm-layout/blob/main/src/Layout.elm) and paste it into your project.

## Why would I want this?

Elm-Ui is great to use for smaller projects. However, its implementation if very opaque, and complicated styling can be challenging.

* Elm-Ui is opinionated. Buttons, Input fields and Labels comes with a predefined style - that is not documented.
* Elm-Ui is too abstract. Debugging weird behavior is challenging, especially if the resulting css does not clearly relate to the code.
* Elm-Ui is big. Most of Elm-Ui is just using Flexbox, everything else is performance optimization and nice-to-haves.

You can actually write [very readable and clear css nowadays](https://csslayout.io/). This package showcases this and tries to be as transparent as possible. It is be possible to modify everything and to also understand the resulting css.