# google/material-design-lite

Material Design Components in HTML/CSS/JS

Repository: https://github.com/google/material-design-lite
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/material-design-lite
Language: HTML
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: material-design, material-design-lite, mdl, material-components, material
Last push: 2026-05-03T01:41:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 80, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4249, "days_push": 123, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 32190, forks 4901 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:57.468957+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, css-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: material-design, vanilla-js, static-sites, deprecated-in-favor-of-mwc, no-framework-dependency

## Member repositories
- google/material-design-lite (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:57.468957+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:52:11.336695+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/material-design-lite (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:57.468957+00:00, sha 2e7be9144bb9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.