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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 4. On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content

In the previous chapter, we built our website's basic skeleton. Using Bootstrap's grid system, we structured our website into five distinct sections. We then styled these sections and learned how to use Bootstrap's navbar and tab system to make these sections navigable. In this chapter, we will continue adding to the knowledge obtained in Chapter 3Building the Layout, by leveraging even more Bootstrap components, adding more content, and streamlining our website's design. We will begin by improving our navbar, and by first learning how to fix its position. We will then use a Bootstrap plugin (Scrollspy) to automatically update the navbar tab item appearance based on the user's navigation. Next, we will customize the website's scrolling behavior, making the transition between sections smoother.

Once we have improved our website's navigation, we will focus on improving and customizing our website's overall look and feel—that is, we will...