Bootstrap's JavaScript features are all built on top of the jQuery library and either provide completely new functionality or extend the functionality of the existing Bootstrap components.
The plugins can be used by simply adding data attributes to your page elements, but they also provide a rich programmatic API, if needed.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
How to use dropdowns and create a cascading dropdown
How to use modal dialogs
How to partition your views with tabs
How to implement tooltips and popovers
How to use the accordion component
How to create a slideshow using the carousel
Tip
In order to use Bootstrap plugins, we'll need to include the bootstrap.js or bootstrap.min.js file in our project. This file contains all the Bootstrap plugins, but if you do not intend to use every plugin in your project, it is a good idea to customize which components are to be included in the bootstrap.js file. This will make the size of the...