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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding Bootstrap components


MyPhoto is looking pretty bare right now, so let's take a look at integrating some Bootstrap components into our sections. First, let us add Bootstrap's JavaScript library. Bootstrap's JS relies upon jQuery UI, so let us add that too. Note that Bootstrap JS is not required for all the components we are going to use here, but it is best to get the setup out of the way. Install jQuery using Bower:

    bower install jquery

Add the following code to the head of your page:

    <script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js">
    </script>

With that, we're ready to use any Bootstrap component in our page.

Jumbotron

The first component we are going to integrate is Bootstrap's jumbotron.

The jumbotron component is essentially a very simple visual cue to draw attention to certain content. It is generally used as a splash to offer immediate information...