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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

Customizing headings


You may want to add some additional context to your headers and you can easily do this with some included Bootstrap 4 utility classes. By using a contextual text class, you can tag on a description to a heading like this:

<h3> 
  This is the main title 
  <small class="text-muted">this is a description</small> 
</h3> 

As you can see, I've added a class of text-muted to a <small> tag that is nested within my header tag. This will style the descriptive part of the text a bit differently, which creates a nice looking effect:

Using the lead class

Another utility text class that has been added to Bootstrap 4 is the lead class. This class is used if you want to make a paragraph of text stand out. It will increase the font size by 25% and set the font-weight of the text to light or 300. It's easy to add, as the following code shows:

<p class="lead"> 
here's some text with the .lead class to make this paragraph look...