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Element vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?

# Element vs Semantic UI

Element and Semantic UI are both popular front-end frameworks used for web development. Below are key differences between Element and Semantic UI.

1. **Design Approach**: Element UI focuses on simplicity and provides clean and minimalistic design elements, while Semantic UI focuses on creating a more expressive and intuitive design with a focus on human language.
2. **Component Library**: Element UI offers a comprehensive set of components that are ready to use out-of-the-box, while Semantic UI provides a wider range of components with more customization options.
3. **Theming**: Element UI offers limited theming options, mainly focusing on customization through CSS variables, while Semantic UI has a robust theming system with the ability to easily customize colors, typography, and more.
4. **Documentation**: Element UI has a well-documented API and component usage examples, making it easier for developers to get started, whereas Semantic UI has detailed documentation with interactive examples, making it easier to explore different features.
5. **Popularity and Community**: Element UI has a strong user base mainly in Asia, particularly in China, while Semantic UI has a larger global community with more extensive support and resources available.
6. **Development Activity**: Element UI has been facing reduced development activity and updates compared to Semantic UI, which has a more active development team continuously adding new features and improvements.

In Summary, Element UI focuses on simplicity and minimalistic design, while Semantic UI offers a more expressive design approach with extensive theming and component customization options.
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Pros of Element
Pros of Semantic UI
  • 3
    Very complete solution
  • 157
    Easy to use and looks elegant
  • 92
    Variety of components
  • 64
    Themes
  • 61
    Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
  • 57
    Semantic, duh
  • 44
    Its the future
  • 42
    Open source
  • 37
    Very active development
  • 31
    Far less complicated structure
  • 28
    Gulp
  • 9
    Already has more features than bootstrap
  • 8
    Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked
  • 7
    Clean and consistent markup model
  • 7
    UI components
  • 6
    Responsiveness
  • 4
    Because it is semantic :-D
  • 4
    Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable
  • 4
    Good-Looking
  • 2
    Is big and look really great, nothing like this
  • 2
    Consistent
  • 2
    Great docs
  • 2
    Modular and scalable
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Blends with reactjs
  • 1
    Jquery

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Cons of Element
Cons of Semantic UI
  • 2
    Buggy in parts
  • 5
    Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
  • 3
    Poor accessibility support
  • 3
    HTML is not semantic (see list component)
  • 2
    Javascript is tied to jquery

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What is Element?

Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.

What is Semantic UI?

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

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