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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

The sidebar menu

Much like the navigation in the previous section, Bulma’s menu component acts in a very similar way. There are menu containers, menu-lists, and more.

Bulma provides a simple menu that can be used for any type of vertical navigation. In this case, you define links to navigate between the top-level content types: the dashboard, the books, the customers, and the orders.

This menu will live in the first column and will be to the left of the admin’s user interface. To create a menu, create a <nav> element with the menu class.

<nav class="menu">

</nav>

You’ll obviously want to add some more content and possibly give it a label. The menu-label class can be appended to any HTML element. This class, however, is most commonly used with things like paragraphs and headings.

Continuing the menu sidebar...

<nav class="menu">
  <p class="menu-label">
    Menu
  </p>
</nav>

You’ll...