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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Jakobus
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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Jakobus

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Building the Layout

In Chapter 2, Making a Style Statement, we learned about some of Bootstrap's core features, such as the grid system, and we built out the print sizes component of MyPhoto. In this chapter, we will put this knowledge to further use by building out the layout of MyPhoto.

First, we will split the page into five sections: Welcome, Services, Gallery, About, and ContactUs, along with a footer placeholder. We will use the grid system to create distinct sections on the page. We will add content to these sections using the Bootstrap components jumbotron, tabs, carousel, and cards.

Furthermore, we will discover how to integrate Bootstrap's navbar component into our page to provide single-page, app-like navigation, while also using it to surface Bootstrap modal windows.

As we learn how to use these different components, we will also explain how to customize the components in order to integrate them with the styling conventions of MyPhoto.

In short, this chapter will cover...