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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

Extending Bootstrap 5 classes for semantic HTML

When using Bootstrap 5, you can end up adding a lot of classes to your markup, which will make it hard to swap out the Bootstrap 5 styles with your own set of styles, should you wish to do that sometime in the future. Instead, you can choose to only use semantic HTML elements, while still using the Bootstrap 5 styling. Your HTML can have no classes at all or only the classes you choose (and the naming of these classes as well). So, the structure of the HTML and the (optional) classes can be anything you want.

To understand why this might be desirable, we will consider the Bootstrap 5 CSS rulesets as two different things:

  • A set of styling rules (the CSS declaration blocks)
  • A vocabulary for these styling rules (the selectors)

We want the benefits of the styling rules, but we don’t want to rely on its vocabulary, which is the specific Bootstrap 5 classes. We can achieve this by using semantic HTML on our page...

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