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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

Checkbox and radio buttons


A new feature in Bootstrap 4 is the ability to convert checkboxes and radio buttons into regular buttons. This is really handy from a mobile standpoint because it is much easier to touch a button than it is to check a box or tap a radio button. If you are building a mobile app or responsive website, it would be a good idea to use this component. Let's start by taking a look at the code to generate a group of three checkboxes as a button group:

<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons"> 
  <label class="btn btn-primary active"> 
    <input type="checkbox" checked autocomplete="off"> checkbox 1 
  </label> 
  <label class="btn btn-primary"> 
    <input type="checkbox" autocomplete="off"> checkbox 2 
  </label> 
  <label class="btn btn-primary"> 
    <input type="checkbox" autocomplete="off"> checkbox 3 
  </label> 
</div> 

Let me break down the...