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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
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Preface

The accordion/collapse component


The accordion component is probably best known for FAQ pages or pages that require a lot of content to be broken down into manageable parts. An accordion is made up of a number of panel groups. Each panel group, in turn, has a heading and body elements.

An accordion effect is created by using the Bootstrap collapse plugin which allows you to toggle content in the pages using JavaScript.

To use the accordion component in our project, perform the following steps:

  1. To allow the panel to collapse when the user clicks on its heading, we need to add a data-toggle attribute to an anchor <a> element inside the panel heading element and set its value to collapse.

  2. We also need to specify the parent element of the panel by setting the data-parent attribute's value to the ID of the parent panel group. Next, set the anchor element's href attribute to the ID of the <div> element that contains the content.

  3. Finally, we also need to set the panel body element's class...