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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4

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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.
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Breadcrumbs


Now that we improved our navigation bar, we can expand the range of available content on our site. Although we won't add more content as part of our demo website, we should consider how we can help the user navigate sets of nested pages without getting lost. To this end, Bootstrap allows us to easily use a user interface control called breadcrumbs. Wikipedia defines this control as follows:

"Breadcrumbs or breadcrumbs trail is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs, documents, or websites. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the fairy tale of the same name."

Creating breadcrumbs is very straightforward; all that is required is to apply the breadcrumb class to an ordered list element (ol), and then apply breadcrumb-item to the individual list items. A crumb can be marked as active using the active class:

<ol class="breadcrumb">
     &lt...
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