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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

Creating and customizing forms


At long last we are ready to move on to the final part of our landing page, the Contact Us form. Note that we will not be writing any of the actual JavaScript that transfers the contents of the Contact Us form to the server. Instead, we will learn how to use Bootstrap to lay out our form elements in an elegant and responsive manner.

Typically, Contact Us forms require at least three pieces of information from the user—the user's name (so that the recipient of the form data will know who they are talking to), the user's e-mail address (so that the recipient of the form data can reply to the user), and the actual message (what the user wants to send to the recipient). As such, we will be creating a form that will consist of three inputs—a name field, an e-mail address field, and a text area for the user to write their message.

Let's dig right into it. Start by creating an empty form below the Contact Us header:

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