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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

Miscellaneous migration changes


Aside from what I've gone over already, there are a number of other changes you need to be aware of when migrating to Bootstrap 4. Let's go through them all below.

Migrating typography

The .page-header class has been dropped from version 4. Instead, you should look at using the new display CSS classes on your headers if you want to give them a heading look and feel.

Migrating images

If you've ever used responsive images in the past, the class name has changed. Previously, the class name was .image-responsive but it is now named .image-fluid. You'll need to update that class anywhere it is used.

Migrating tables

For the table component, a few class names have changed and there are some new classes you can use.

If you would like to create a responsive table, you can now simply add the class .table-responsive to the <table> tag. Previously, you had to wrap the class around the <table> tag. If migrating, you'll need to update your HTML markup to the new format...