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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 6. Customizing Your Plugins

So far, we have built the MyPhoto demo page by leveraging all that Bootstrap has to offer, customizing Bootstrap's components and using jQuery plugins along the way. In this chapter, we will be delving deep into Bootstrap's jQuery plugins with extensive customization via JavaScript and CSS.

We will take some of the plugins we have introduced into MyPhoto, take a look under the hood, and we will customize them step by step to meet the needs of our page. Plugins will be examined and extended throughout this chapter in an effort to not only make our page better, but to also build our knowledge of how jQuery plugins are built and how they behave within Bootstrap's ecosystem.

When we are comfortable with customizing Bootstrap's jQuery plugins, we will create a fully customized jQuery plugin of our own for MyPhoto.

Summarizing all of this, we will do the following in this chapter:

  • Learn about the anatomy of a Bootstrap jQuery plugin
  • Learn how to extensively customize...