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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.
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Text alignment and transformation


Using the grid system, we learned how to lay out a website's basic building blocks. However, generally we need an additional level of control that allows us to more finely align the content contained within these building blocks. This level of control is provided by Bootstrap's text alignment classes:

  • text-justify justifies the text so that it fills an entire area evenly
  • text-nowrap ensures that the text does not wrap onto the next line (refer to Figure 8.6)
  • text-truncate will truncate longer text with an ellipsis (refer to Figure 8.6):

Figure 8.6: Applying the text-nowrap and text-truncate classes to long bodies of text; the text in the first paragraph has the text-nowrap class applied, and therefore does not wrap onto the next line, but continues on the same line instead

The text-<position> and text-<breakpoint>-<position> classes can be used to position text by setting the text-align property for an element. Bootstrap defines the non-response...

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