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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

Improving navigation using Scrollspy


Now that we have fixated the navbar at the top of the page, it will no longer disappear as the user scrolls down the page. But now we are faced with a new problem. As the user clicks on a navbar item, they have no way of telling which section of the site they are visiting, or whether the section has loaded successfully without actually examining the section's content. Wouldn't it be nice if the user could tell which section they are currently visiting by looking at the navbar? To this end, we would need to find a way of highlighting the navbar items based on the user's navigation. For example, if the user is browsing the Services section, then we would need to update the color of the Services navbar item.

Luckily, Bootstrap comes equipped with a plugin that allows us to automatically update the navbar items based on the user's navigation. Take a look at the following screenshot:

Figure 4.2: Currently, all navbar items are the same color - there is no way...