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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
Book Image

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By: Pieter van der Westhuizen

Overview of this book

One of the leading open source frontend frameworks, Bootstrap has undergone a significant change and introduced several features that make designing compelling, next-generation UIs much simpler. Integrating Bootstrap with ASP.NET's powerful components can further enhance its capabilities. This book guides you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC website from scratch using Bootstrap. After a primer on the fundamentals of Bootstrap, you will learn your way around and create a new ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio. You will move on to learn about the various Bootstrap components as well as techniques to include them in your own projects. The book includes practical examples to show you how to use open-source plugins with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC and guides you through building an ASP.NET MVC website using Bootstrap, utilizing layout and user-interface components. At the end of this book, you will find some valuable tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Bootstrap-integrated and ASP.NET MVC-integrated website.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The Bootstrap navigation bar


The Bootstrap navigation bar is one of the components that is used on the majority of sites using the Bootstrap framework. The navbar functions as a navigation header in your sites and will collapse on smaller devices showing only an icon menu, using the Bootstrap Collapse plugin. It is ideally suited to include site branding and navigation.

Basic navbar

A basic navigation bar consists of the website logo or brand name, navigation menu, and options for toggling behavior on smaller devices. A basic Bootstrap navigation bar might look similar to this:

The preceding navigation bar consists of an <a> element containing the site logo, with a class name of .navbar-brand. It also contains a <ul> element, whose class name is set to .nav navbar-nav. Each <li> child element's class name is set to .nav-item. The full HTML markup required to create the navigation bar is listed here:

<nav class="navbar navbar-full navbar-dark bg-primary"> 
    &lt...