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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

Customizing scroll speed


Great! Our navbar items are now automatically updated based on the user's scroll position. Easy, huh? But we're not quite done yet. The transition between sections actually feels quite rough. The page literally jumps from one section to another. Such a jerky movement is not very pleasing. Instead, we should improve the user experience of our website by making this transition between sections smoother. We can quite easily accomplish this by customizing the scroll speed of our page by using jQuery. The first step in this task involves automating the scroll, that is, forcing a scroll event to a target on the page using jQuery, without the user needing to actually perform a scroll operation. The second step involves defining the speed of such a scroll operation.

As it turns out, the developers behind jQuery already thought about both of these steps by providing us with the animate   method. As its name implies, this method allows us to apply an animation to a given set...