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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

Modal dialogs


Modals are used to provide a pop-up dialog style element that can be used to provide information to the user or even allow the user to complete a form inside the modal. A Bootstrap modal is essentially made of three parts: a header, body, and footer. You can put any standard HTML markup inside the modal's body element, including standard text or even an embedded YouTube video.

As a general rule, always place the modal's markup in a top-level position inside your view—the top or bottom of the view is the best place to put your modal markup.

Using the following HTML and Razor markup, we'll create a modal that prompts the user whether they would like to continue deleting a certain customer record from the database. We'll declare a <form> element inside the modal's body and use a button that is created inside the modal's footer element to submit the form. We'll also create a button that the user can click on to dismiss the modal. This is accomplished by adding the data-dismiss...