Globalstyles

Metro UI CSS provides any additional global routines classes for creating and styling elements such as: color classes, positioning classes, columns and much more.

Reset styles: In Metro UI CSS used modified Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallaher.

Colors

Metro UI CSS provides access to the main colors used in Windows 8. You can sets: background, foreground, outline, border color for any elements.

  • *-black
  • *-white
  • *-lime
  • *-green
  • *-emerald
  • *-teal
  • *-cyan
  • *-cobalt
  • *-indigo
  • *-violet
  • *-pink
  • *-magenta
  • *-crimson
  • *-red
  • *-orange
  • *-amber
  • *-yellow
  • *-brown
  • *-olive
  • *-steel
  • *-mauve
  • *-taupe
  • *-gray
  • *-dark
  • *-darker
  • *-transparent
  • *-darkBrown
  • *-darkCrimson
  • *-darkMagenta
  • *-darkIndigo
  • *-darkCyan
  • *-darkCobalt
  • *-darkTeal
  • *-darkEmerald
  • *-darkGreen
  • *-darkOrange
  • *-darkRed
  • *-darkPink
  • *-darkViolet
  • *-darkBlue
  • *-lightBlue
  • *-lightTeal
  • *-lightOlive
  • *-lightOrange
  • *-lightPink
  • *-lightRed
  • *-lightGreen

To set background color: use prefix bg, to set foreground color: use prefix fg, to set outline color: use prefix ol, to set border color: use prefix bd. Also you can set active, hover and focus colors with classes bg(fg)-hover-*, bg(fg)-active-* and bg(fg)-focus-*.

<div class="bg-darkPink">...</div>
<span class="fg-white">...</span>
<div class="tile ol-white">...</div>
<a class="fg-cyan fg-hover-cobalt">...</a>

Ribbed mixin

To create ribbed background use prefix ribbed

<div class="ribbed-amber">...</div>
<div class="ribbed-cyan">...</div>

Mixin classes