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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

Tabs


Tabs provide an option to split your content into separate pages. This is an ideal component when you have a particularly large form that you want to split up into a logical grouping. For example, when you're editing an employee's record, you might want to split their basic information from their background history, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Bootstrap tabs are divided into two parts. You first need to specify the tab names and the ID of the corresponding <div> element to show when the user clicks on the tab. This is done by creating a standard unordered list <ul> element with the tab names as child list items <li>. The <ul> element's class must be set to nav nav-tabs or nav nav-pills, as illustrated in the following HTML markup:

<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist"> 
    <li class="nav-item"> 
        <a class="nav-link active" data-toggle="tab" href="#info" 
         role="tab">Employee Info</a> 
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