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Mastering Bootstrap 4

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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.

Preface

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Free Chapter

Revving Up Bootstrap

Revving Up Bootstrap

Introducing our demo project

What Bootstrap 4 has to offer

Setting up our project

Summary

Making a Style Statement

Making a Style Statement

The grid system

Image elements

Responsive utilities

Summary

Building the Layout

Building the Layout

Creating sections

Adding Bootstrap components

Summary

On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content

On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content

Fixating the navbar

Improving navigation using Scrollspy

Breadcrumbs

Icons

Creating a footer

Creating and customizing forms

Form validation

Progress indicators

Adding content using media objects

Figures

Summary

Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins

Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins

Browser detection

Enhanced pagination using bootpag

Displaying images using Bootstrap Lightbox

Improving our price list with DataTables

Typeahead

Tooltips

Popovers

Summary

Customizing Your Plugins

Customizing Your Plugins

Anatomy of a plugin

Customizing plugins

Writing a custom Bootstrap jQuery plugin

Summary

Advanced Third-Party Plugins

Advanced Third-Party Plugins

Building a testimonial component with Salvattore

Hover

Summary

Utilities

Utilities

Flexbox

Display properties and alignment

Borders

Context colors

Margins and padding

Floating

Fixing

Toggling visibility

Text alignment and transformation

Highlighting text

Reducing text size

Lists

Width and height

Code

Sub and sup

Formatting user input

Formatting user output

Clearfix

Summary

List Groups and Accordions

List Groups and Accordions

List groups

Collapsing content

Summary

Optimizing Your Website

Optimizing Your Website

CSS optimization

Minifying CSS and JavaScript

Introducing Grunt

Running tasks automatically

Stripping our website of unused CSS

JavaScript file concatenation

Summary

Integrating with AngularJS and React

Integrating with AngularJS and React

Introducing AngularJS

Introducing React

Summary

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The reader should understand HTML and CSS
The reader should have at least basic knowledge of JavaScript

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A block of code is set as follows:

<link rel="stylesheet" 
href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" >

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exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1|30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

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npm init
npm install bootstrap

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