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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 utilities

All of the utilities are generated using the utility API and most are declared in the _utilities.scss file, except for the background, borders, colors, position, shadows, and spacing utilities, which have variables and maps defined in the _variables.scss file. We have already learned how to customize text colors and background colors in the previous chapter, and you can learn about the utility API in the next chapter.

Now, we will take a look at some of those utilities that are generated using values from the _variables.scss file.

Borders

The border utilities are generated from variables found in the _variables.scss file on lines 480500. We will see how we can change the values used to generate the utilities for border width.

The values for border widths are stored in a Sass map, and the line numbers, variable name, and default values are as follows:

bootstrap/scss/_variables.scss

481 $border-widths: (
482   1: 1px,
...
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Change the font size

margin-width

Change margin width

day-mode

Change background colour

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