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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

Learning to use typography


In Bootstrap 4, there are no major changes with the core typographic HTML tags. Header tags and their supporting CSS classes still work as they always have. However, there are some new utility classes you can use with some type tags to provide further variations for things like headers and titles. Later on in the book we'll be using a number of type tags and styles in our blog project. A couple of quick examples would be header tags for page and post titles, and lists for a number of different components. Let's start by reviewing the new display heading classes in Bootstrap 4.

Using display headings

Regular header tags work great in the flow of a page and are key for setting up the hierarchy of an article. For a landing page or other display-type templates, you may require additional header styles. This is where you can use the new display heading classes to create slightly larger titles with some different styling. There are four different levels of display headings...