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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

Modifiers

Modifiers are extra CSS classes that you add to your HTML in order to change its appearance. For example, let’s look at a <button> and see how adding a modifier can change its appearance.

<button class="button">I'm a button</button>

So far its pretty generic, with not much going on. However, let’s change it to a turquoise color that Bulma ships with. To change the color to a “primary” color of your theme, use the is-primary modifier.

<button class="button is-primary">I'm a button</button>

Now the button is turquoise. But let’s not stop there. You can continue adding modifier classes to this button in order to change its appearance. Let’s make it a “ghost” button or a hollow button with an outline.

<button class="button is-primary is-outlined">I'm a button</button>

You can also use the is-loading modifier class to show an animated...