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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

Improving our price list with DataTables


With the Events section in place, it is time to move onto our price list that we built in Chapter 2, Making a Style Statement and Chapter 3, Building the Layout. For the data that is currently displayed, the existing table structure works perfectly fine. The prices are nicely presented, and the table is not too crowded. However, what if MyPhoto were required to display hundreds of prices (yes, this case may seem far fetched, but bear with it for demonstration purposes)? Our existing table structure would far exceed its display capacity; the columns would be too crowded and we would need to implement some form of pagination to help keep the table organized. Of course, if you read the previous sections, you will know how easy it is to implement pagination using a third-party plugin. However, with hundreds or thousands of items, pagination will not be enough to make the website usable. Users may require more advanced features, such as the ability to...