What are the most important components that you would look for in a CSS framework before approaching to use it. Buttons, drop-downs, and input fields are absolute must in my perspective; along with a grid system.
What do you look for, ranked from most important to least important?
I recommend the other way around: start with your product requirements and work backwards.
Most frameworks have all the usual suspects, so their feature list isn't likely to be the deciding factor. I'd be looking for tech compatibility with your own stack, flexibility, extensibility and so on.
Really pushed for features, I'd say...
Also I should really admit that I don't use off the shelf options, I plunder the good bits and assemble my own library.
André Drougge
Developer
I usually use my own grid systems written in Susy, so I feel it's important that a CSS framework doesn't include it as a mandatory part of the framework.