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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

Creating a custom component using Bootstrap 5 variables, mixins, and functions

In the previous section, we saw how we could extend existing Bootstrap 5 classes using the @extend rule of Sass to create a custom component. In this section, we will see how we can create a custom component with Sass using the approach recommended by the team behind Bootstrap. This approach first of all entails reusing as many Bootstrap variables, mixins, and functions as possible, so that the custom component will be affected by any customization of the global options and Bootstrap variables. Secondly, the component will be based on a base class that groups as many shared properties as possible, and then a range of modifier classes that group individual styles together.

The custom component that we’re going to create is a timeline component, and it looks like this:

Figure 10.7 – The custom timeline component

In the screenshot, we see the base class being used,...

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