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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
Book Image

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

By: Pieter van der Westhuizen

Overview of this book

<p>Bootstrap, a leading open source frontend framework, takes care of typography, form layouts, and user interface components, allowing a developer to focus on writing code. Integrating ASP.NET's powerful components can further enhance its capabilities. This book guides you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC website from scratch using Bootstrap.</p> <p>You will learn about various Bootstrap components as well as techniques to include them in your own projects. The book includes practical examples to show you how to use open source plugins with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC and will guide you through building a website using Bootstrap, utilizing layout and user interface components. In the process, you will also learn to build HTML helpers and T4 templates as well as how to use the jQuery DataTables plugin. At the end of this book, you will find some valuable tips and tricks, which will help you in getting the most out of your Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC integrated website.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Bootstrap image classes


Images can be made responsive by setting their class attribute to img-responsive. This will scale the image in relation to its parent element by setting its maximum width to 100% and height to auto.

You also have the option to shape images with either rounded corners, circles, or with an outer border. This is accomplished by setting the <img> element's class to one of the following Bootstrap classes:

  • img-rounded

  • img-circle

  • img-thumbnail

In the following screenshot, we've displayed a list of employees and their pictures. The list of employees is retrieved from a database and passed to the view:

The code that achieves the preceding result (and can be viewed in the accompanying sample project) is as follows:

@model Northwind.Web.Models.EmployeeViewModel[]
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <h2>About Us.</h2>
        <p>Northwind Traders are a premier supplier of various food products,</p>
    </div>
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