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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

Tabs


Tabs provide an option to split your content into separate pages. This is an ideal component when you have a particularly large form, which you want to split up into a logical grouping. For example, when you're editing a customer's record, you might want to split their contact details from their address details, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Bootstrap tabs are divided into two parts. You first need to specify the tab names and the ID of the corresponding <div> element to show when the user clicks on the tab. This is done by creating a standard unordered list <ul> element with the tab names as child list items <li>. The <ul> element's class must be set to nav nav-tabs or nav nav-pills, as illustrated in the following script:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
    <li class="active"><a href="#info" data-toggle="tab">Customer Info</a></li>
    <li><a href="#address" data-toggle="tab">Address</a></li>
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