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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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CSS optimization


Before we even consider compression, minification, and file concatenation, we should think about the ways in which we can simplify and optimize our existing style sheet without using third-party tools. Of course, we should have striven for an optimal style sheet to begin with, and in many aspects we did. However, our style sheet still leaves room for improvement. Some of these improvements we have ignored on purpose within Chapters 9, List Groupsand Accordions, as they would have detracted from the chapter's intended purpose. However, as this chapter is concerned with optimizing the client-side code of a web page, the time has come to talk a little about general tips and practices that will help you keep your style sheets small and your rules short. We will address each of these tips and practices in turn.

Inline styles

After reading this chapter, if you only remember one thing, then let it be that inline styles are bad. Period. Avoid using them whenever possible. Why? That...

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