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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

How to use the Navs component


The Navs component in Bootstrap can be displayed in a couple of different ways. The default view for the component is just a simple unstyled list of links. This list can also be transformed into tabs or pills for ways of organizing your content and navigation. Let's start by learning how to create a default Nav component:

<ul class="nav"> 
  <li class="nav-item"> 
    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link 1</a> 
  </li> 
  <li class="nav-item"> 
    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link 2</a> 
  </li> 
  <li class="nav-item"> 
    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link 3</a> 
  </li> 
</ul> 

The most basic version of the Nav component is built using the preceding code:

  • The component is based on an unordered list with a class of .nav

  • Each <li> tag in the list requires a class of .nav-item

  • Nested inside the <li> tag must be an...