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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

Displaying images using Bootstrap Lightbox


One important feature missing from our Events section is the ability to include images that illustrate an event (or provide additional information). Of course, you can add images using the img tag, but that may not be very practical, as the image size will be limited by the container's dimensions.

In this section, we will demonstrate how we can overcome this limitation by allowing users to enlarge images as they click on them, without redirecting them away from our page. To this end, go ahead and embed one image with each event (take a look at figure 5.8). Each image should be aligned to the left of the event description and should have a width of 80 and a height of 45:

    <div id="page-1"> 
        <h3>My Sample Event #1</h3> 
        <p> 
            <img src="images/event1.jpg" align="left" width="80"
            height="45"/>
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
            Curabitur...