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Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch. Get to grips with Bootstrap’s key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, use forms, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap’s various navigation components. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, creating your own custom components and extending Bootstrap using jQuery. 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 be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Bootstrap 4
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Chapter 3. Building the Layout

In Chapter 2, Making a Style Statement, we learned about some of Bootstrap's core features, such as the grid system, and built out the print sizes component of MyPhoto. In this chapter, we are going to put this knowledge to further use by building out the layout of MyPhoto.

First, we will split the page into five sections, as we discussed in the previous chapters. These would be Welcome, Services, Gallery, About, and Contact Us, along with a footer placeholder. Here, we will use the grid system to create distinct sections on the page. We will add content to these sections using the Bootstrap components jumbotron, tabs, carousel, and wells.

Furthermore, we will discover how to integrate Bootstrap's navbar component into our page to provide single-page, app-like navigation, while also using it to surface Bootstrap  modal windows.

As we learn about and implement these different components, we will also introduce how to customize the components to integrate with the...