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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

Tooltips


Bootstrap's tooltip plugin is an updated version of Jason Frame's jQuery.tipsy plugin. Tooltips can be used to provide users with additional information labels about specific content on your pages or provide insight into what input is expected in form elements.

Tooltips can be used on a variety of elements; for example, the following markup shows a tooltip when a user hovers over an anchor <a> element:

<a data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" data-original-title="Welcome to the wonderful World of Grammar!" href="#" >World of Grammar</a>

To use a tooltip on any element, add a data-toggle="tooltip" attribute to it. You can specify the placement of the tooltip by setting the data-placement attribute to one of the following values:

  • top

  • bottom

  • left

  • right

Finally, set the value of the data-original-title attribute to specify what text should be shown inside the tooltip.

One caveat of tooltips is that because of performance concerns, the data- API is opt-in, which...