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    <h1 class="title">Classes</h1>
    <h2 class="subtitle">Bulma is simply a <strong>collection</strong> of CSS classes. Write the HTML code you want.</h2>

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      <p>
        Bulma is a <strong>CSS</strong> framework, meaning that the end result is simply a <strong>single</strong> <code>.css</code> file:
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        <a href="https://github.com/jgthms/bulma/blob/master/css/bulma.css">https://github.com/jgthms/bulma/blob/master/css/bulma.css</a></p>
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        Because Bulma solely comprises CSS classes, the HTML code you write has <strong>no impact</strong> on the styling of your page. That's why <code>.input</code> exists as a class, so you can choose <em>which</em> <code>&lt;input type="text"&gt;</code> elements you want to style.
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        Bulma only styles <strong>generic</strong> tags directly <strong>twice</strong>:
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          <a href="https://github.com/jgthms/bulma/blob/master/sass/base/generic.sass"><code>generic.sass</code></a> to define a basic style for your page
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          the <a href="{{ site.url }}/documentation/elements/content/"><code>.content</code> class </a> to use for <em>any</em> textual content, like WYSIWYG
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