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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Matt Lambert
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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

Designing a single blog post


Let's start by designing the layout and content for a single blog post. At the very least, a blog post should have: a title, post-meta, description, and a read more link. Open up the flexbox.ejs file and replace the first column's code with this new code:

<div class="col-md-4 child"> 
  <h3><a href="#">Blog Post Title</a></h3> 
  <p><small>Posted by <a href="#">Admin</a> on January 1, 2016</small></p> 
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam eget ornare lacus. Nulla sed vulputate mauris. Nunc nec urna vel sapien mattis consectetur sit amet eu tellus.</p> 
  <p><a href="#">Read More</a></p> 
</div> 

Let me breakdown what is happening here:

  • I've added an <h3> tag with a link for the post title

  • I've added some post-meta and wrapped it in a <small> tag so it is subtle

  • I've left our description...