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title: Semantic UI
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---
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## Semantic UI
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#### Introduction
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Semantic UI is a front-end development framework similar to bootstrap designed for theming. It contains pre-built semantic components that helps create beautiful and responsive layouts using human-friendly HTML.
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According to the Semantic UI website, the framework utilizes concise HTML, intuitive JavaScript, and simplified debugging to make a front-end development a fun and delightful experience. And it integrates with React, Angular, Meteor, Ember and many other frameworks to help organize UI layer alongside application logic.
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#### Version History
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The first pre-release appear on github on September 2013, created by [Jack Lukic](https://github.com/jlukic).
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Semantic UI `1.x` was first released in November 2014 with breaking changes to previous pre-releases.
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Semantic UI `2.x` was first released in June 2015 and introduced new ui, several bug fixes, enhancements, and default theme improvements.
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#### Browser Support
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The current version `2.2.x` support the following browsers
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* Last 2 Versions FF, Chrome, Safari Mac
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* IE 11+
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* Android 4.4+, Chrome for Android 44+
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* iOS Safari 7+
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* Microsoft Edge 12+
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#### Installation
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There are several ways of installing Semantic UI, some of the simplest ways are as follows:
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1. **Via Content Delivery Network (CDN)**
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It is by far the easiest for beginners. Create an HTML file as below
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```html
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Semantic UI</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/semantic-ui/2.2.13/semantic.min.css">
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<!-- Add custom stylesheet here -->
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</head>
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<body>
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<!-- Write your html code here -->
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/semantic-ui/2.2.13/semantic.min.js"></script>
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</body>
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</html>
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```
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`NOTE:` The above CDN link on line 5, will include all the available components in Semantic UI. If you want to install a specific component, [click here](https://cdnjs.com/libraries/semantic-ui) to see its respective CDN link.
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2. **Using Build Tools**
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This will assume you're using Ubuntu Linux OS with `node` and `npm` installed, for other operating systems [click here](https://semantic-ui.com/introduction/getting-started.html)
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In your project directory, install gulp globally using npm
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```
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npm install -g gulp
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```
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Install Semantic UI
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```
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npm install semantic-ui --save
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cd semantic/
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gulp build
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```
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Include in HTML
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```html
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="semantic/dist/semantic.min.css">
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<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-hVVnYaiADRTO2PzUGmuLJr8BLUSjGIZsDYGmIJLv2b8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
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<script src="semantic/dist/semantic.min.js"></script>
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```
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Update Via npm
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```
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npm update
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```
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3. **Integrating with other Frameworks**
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You can integrate Semantic UI with other Front-end development frameworks like React, Angular, Ember or Meteor. [Click here](https://semantic-ui.com/introduction/integrations.html) for more informations and integration instructions.
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#### More Information
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Semantic UI has thorough and very well organized documentation, that will gets you up and running in no time. The following links will be helpful in your Semantic UI journey.
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* [Semantic UI Website](https://semantic-ui.com/)
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* [Getting Started with Semantic UI](https://semantic-ui.com/introduction/getting-started.html)
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* [Sample Semantic UI Templates](https://semantic-ui.com/usage/layout.html#pages)
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* [Customizing and Creating Semantic UI Themes](http://learnsemantic.com/)
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