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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

Additional global changes


The change to Sass is one of the bigger global differences in version 4 of Bootstrap. Let's take a look at a few others you should be aware of.

Using REM units

In Bootstrap 4, px has been replaced with rem for the primary unit of measure. If you are unfamiliar with rem it stands for root em. Rem is a relative unit of measure where pixels are fixed. Rem looks at the value for font-size on the root element in your stylesheet. It then uses your value declaration, in rems, to determine the computer pixel value. Let's use an example to make this easier to understand:

 
html { 
font-size: 24px; 
} 
 
p { 
font-size: 2rem; 
} 
 

In this case, the computed font-size for the <p> tag would be 48px. This is different from the em unit because ems will be affected by wrapping elements that may have a different size. However, rem takes a simpler approach and just calculates everything from the root HTML element. It removes the size...