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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

List groups


List groups are UI components used for displaying sets of data, such as a series of messages or a log of recent purchases. For argument's sake, let's assume that, in the case of MyPhoto, we wish to build an administration backend that allows the owner of the site to quickly review purchases and view any messages that buyers of photographs might have sent the owner. To this end, we first create a ul or ol element and apply the list-group class to it. The list-group class will merely adjust the margin, bottom and, if flexbox is enabled, set the display property of the element to flex and the flex-direction property to column. The list-group-item item class should be applied to any list item elements contained within the list group. This list-group-item class is responsible for styling the list item so that the elements appear neatly grouped (take a look at figure 9.1). This is achieved by doing the following:

  1. Setting the padding of the element so that the text contained within the...