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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

Customizing forms

Form elements can be customized using the form variables found in the _variables.scss file on lines 7961034 and lines 13131318. With these variables, you can change things such as form text, form labels, regular inputs, checkboxes and radio buttons, switches, input groups, select elements, range inputs, file inputs, floating labels, and form validation.

As an example, we will customize a range input.

Range

First, let’s see what a default range input looks like:

Figure 5.7 – Default range input

We will now change the track height, thumb width, and thumb border radius for the range input. The line number, variable name, and default value for these three properties of the range input are as follows:

bootstrap/scss/_variables.scss

972 $form-range-track-height: .5rem;
978 $form-range-thumb-width: 1rem;
982 $form-range-thumb-border-radius: 1rem;

We will make the range input twice as big by doubling...

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