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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

Working with containers


The base of any Bootstrap layout is a container class. There are two types of containers you can choose to use. The first is .container-fluid, which is a full-width box and will stretch the layout to fit the entire width of the browser window.

There is some left and right padding added so the content doesn't bump right up against the browser edge:

The second option is the basic .container class, which will have a fixed width based on the size of your device's viewport. There are five different sizes in Bootstrap, with the following width values:

  • Extra small <544px

  • Small >544px

  • Medium >768px

  • Large >992px

  • Extra large >1140px

Let's take a look at the markup for both container types. I'll start with the basic .container class:

<div class="container"> 
  ... 
</div> 

That's pretty easy. Now let's look at the code for the fluid container:

<div class="container-fluid"> 
  ... 
</div> 

Again, that is straightforward...