google/material-design-lite

Health v2 · maintenance only

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32190 stars · 4901 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Material Design Lite is a Google implementation of Material Design components in vanilla CSS, JS, and HTML with no framework dependencies. It is now in limited support, with active development moved to Material Components for the web.

Use cases

• add material design styling to a static website
• material design ui components without a javascript framework
• drop-in css and js for material look and feel
• accessible responsive components for older browsers
• self-host material design assets

When to choose

• you need a framework-free, vanilla HTML/CSS/JS material design kit for a static site
• you must support older browsers like IE9/IE10 with graceful degradation
• you want a stable, frozen library you can self-host

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - use Material Components for the web instead
• you need actively developed components or new features
• you rely on the getmdl.io documentation site, which no longer exists

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

ui-components css-framework frontend-framework web-development frontend web-design browser cross-platform material-design vanilla-js static-sites deprecated-in-favor-of-mwc no-framework-dependency

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