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The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide

The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide

By : Jeppe Schaumburg Jensen
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The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide

The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide

4.2 (13)
By: Jeppe Schaumburg Jensen

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is one of the world's most popular and easy-to-use frontend UI toolkits for building responsive websites, but few know how to get the most out of its vast range of components, utilities, JavaScript plugins, and other features. The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide will help you customize Bootstrap 5 with Sass to achieve a layout that stands out from the crowd, enabling you to create something unique that doesn't look like it was created with Bootstrap. With this practical guide to Bootstrap customization, developers working with Bootstrap will be able to utilize powerful customization techniques to create websites with unique designs and exclusive features. You’ll see how you can develop a visually appealing website quickly and easily by taking a hands-on approach to customizing your website using advanced features of CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. Starting with learning how the Bootstrap 5 visual style is created with Sass, you’ll find out how to customize it to fit your needs while achieving the website look you want. You'll then use this knowledge to create a website using most of Bootstrap 5's components and customization with Sass and JavaScript. Finally, you’ll explore various advanced Bootstrap 5 topics related to Sass, CSS, JavaScript, and source code optimization. By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and build modern, captivating, and unique websites on your own using the immense capabilities of Bootstrap 5.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part One – Customizing Bootstrap 5 with Sass
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Part Two – Creating a Unique-Looking Website Based on Bootstrap 5 and Customization
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Part Three – Advanced Topics Related to Bootstrap 5

Default variable overrides

Filename: _default-variable-overrides.scss

In this file, we will add all customization code regarding colors, global options, global variables, and layout, and some of the customization code regarding forms and components. There will also be customization code regarding forms and components (as well as other customization code) in the _variable-value-using-variable.scss file, which we will take a closer look at later in this chapter.

Color palette

The first thing we want to do is define our own color palette. Together with typography (which we will customize later in this chapter), this is a very important aspect of a visual design that defines a brand.

We override all contextual color classes by assigning them a new hexadecimal color value, but any other ways to define colors can be used. The $secondary, $light, and $dark variables are assigned a color value from the list of gray colors defined in Bootstrap 5, as noted in the comments. The variables...

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