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Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By : Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning
Book Image

Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By: Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning

Overview of this book

Bulma is a lightweight configurable CSS framework that handles all the hard work of Flexbox for you. Bulma makes creating web interfaces an easy and interesting job. This book begins with an overview of the basics of Bulma ? its terms and its concepts. Then, while designing a login page for your application, you’ll learn how to use the various tools provided by Bulma to create HTML forms and control their layout and flow. In the later chapters, you’ll design an admin area for your application, thus learning to use Bulma’s navigation and menu components. You will also add the components to your user interface for common things such as boxes, lists, and media groups, and then create pagination. As you progress through the book, you’ll create and layout some other components for your interface, including tables, design dropdown lists, and finally to integrate your web application with JavaScript. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the features of Bulma to your advantage and build web interfaces quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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8. Creating more tables and selecting dropdowns

Overriding Bulma’s initial variables

The new design comes with new brand colors, a second font Karla, and a bigger border radius. Using this new branding is straightforward: update their respective variables with their new values, and the changes will be reflected throughout the website.

In custom.scss, write the following:

// Initial variables
$turquoise: #5dd52a;
$red: #D30012;
$yellow: #FFF200;
$green: #24D17D;
$blue: #525adc;

$family-sans-serif: "Karla", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;

$radius: 5px;

Remember to add this before importing Bulma.

The colors have been updated, and the body font is now Karla.

All Bulma variables use the !default flag. It’s a Sass feature that means a variable’s value will be assigned a default value unless it has been assigned one before.

That’s why importing Bulma after having set the new variables still works, and the new brand colors are preserved.

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