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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Lambert
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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: 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 (10 chapters)
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1. Introducing Bootstrap 4

Creating an inline form


Let's start by learning how to create an inline form. This is a layout you might want to use in the header of a project or perhaps for a login page. In this case, we're going to align the fields and buttons of the form vertically across the page. For this example, let's create a simple login form with the following code:

<form class="form-inline"> 
  <div class="form-group"> 
    <label>Name</label> 
    <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Mike Smith"> 
  </div> 
  <div class="form-group"> 
    <label>Email</label> 
    <input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="[email protected]"> 
  </div> 
  <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button> 
</form> 

There are a few things going on in this form, so let me explain them for you:

  • For inline forms, we need to add a CSS class named .form-inline to...