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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap, the most popular front-end framework built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages has undergone a major overhaul. Bootstrap 4 introduces a wide range of new features that make front-end web design even simpler and exciting. In this gentle and comprehensive book, we'll teach you everything that you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You'll learn about build tools such as Node, Grunt, and many others. You'll also discover the principles of mobile-first design in order to ensure your pages can fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements. Learn to play with Bootstrap's grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and that your development process is speedy and efficient. Then, you'll find out how you can extend your current build with some cool JavaScript Plugins, and throw in some Sass to spice things up and customize your themes. This book will make sure you're geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing Bootstrap 4

Flexbox basics and terminology


Before we go too far, we should define a few Flexbox basics and some terminology that I'll use throughout the chapter. Every Flexbox layout is dependent on an outer container. As we move through the chapter, I'll refer to this container as the parent. Within the parent container there will always be a collection of boxes or blocks. I'll refer to these boxes as children or child elements of the parent. Why don't we start by talking a little bit more about why you would want to use Flexbox? The main purpose of Flexbox is to allow for the dynamic resizing of child boxes within their parent container.

This works for the resizing of both width and height properties on-the-fly. Many designers and developers prefer this technique as it allows for easier layouts with less code: