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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

The accordion component


The accordion component is probably best known for FAQ pages or pages that require a lot of content that is broken down into manageable parts. An accordion is made up of a number of panel groups. Each panel group, in turn, has a heading and body elements. To use the accordion component in our project, perform the following steps:

  1. To allow the panel to collapse when the user clicks on its heading, we need to add a data-toggle attribute to an anchor <a> element inside the panel heading element and set its value to collapse.

  2. We also need to specify the parent element of the panel by setting the data-parent attribute's value to the ID of the parent panel group. Next, set the anchor element's href attribute to the ID of the <div> element that contains the content.

  3. Finally, we also need to set the panel body element's class to panel-collapse collapse. In the following code, we'll create an accordion component that contains two panel groups. The first panel group...