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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

Context colors


Bootstrap defines nine context types to give the user a visual indicator of what type of information is being conveyed: primary, secondary, success,info,warning, danger, dark, light, and white as well as providing the developer with simple classes to assign context to elements via text color,text-<context>or background color,bg-<context>. For elements containing text, Bootstrap also provides the muted context color.

The available classes are these:

  • text-muted
  • text-primary and bg-primary
  • text-secondary and bg-secondary
  • text-info and bg-info
  • text-warning and bg-warning
  • text-danger and bg-danger
  • text-light and bg-light
  • text-dark and bg-dark
  • text-white and bg-white

Bootstrap also provides a helper class for making an element transparent:

.bg-transparent {
     background-color: transparent !important;
}

By defining focus and hover rules, Bootstrap ensures that links blend in nicely with the different backgrounds. Consider this example:

a.bg-danger:focus, a.bg-danger:hover {
 ...