# jefftml's HTML & CSS Boilerplate > A modern, minimal 2026 starting point for webpages. This boilerplate is deliberately tiny. It isn't a framework or a reset; it's a sensible, opinionated foundation that gives you comfortable typography, native dark mode, and a readable layout **before you write a single line of your own CSS**. Everything here is standards-based and ships in every current browser (with one tiny exception). --- ## Table of Contents - [Why this exists](#why-this-exists) - [Features at a glance](#features-at-a-glance) - [Getting started](#getting-started) - [Anatomy](#anatomy) - [The ``](#the-head) - [The CSS](#the-css) - [Customizing](#customizing) - [Browser support](#browser-support) - [License](#license) --- ## Why this exists Most "boilerplates" are either bloated (a whole CSS reset plus a grid system you didn't ask for) or too bare (a blank `` with nothing to make text readable). This one aims for the middle: a handful of well-chosen modern CSS features that make a page look intentional and read comfortably on any device, with nothing to install and nothing to tear out later. It also leans on newer platform features, logical properties, `clamp()`, `color-scheme`, `text-wrap`, `hanging-punctuation`, so the defaults are future-friendly and internationalization-ready out of the box. --- ## Features at a glance | Feature | What it does | Why it helps | |---|---|---| | **Single file, zero dependencies** | All CSS lives in an inline `