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Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch. Get to grips with Bootstrap’s key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, use forms, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap’s various navigation components. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, creating your own custom components and extending Bootstrap using jQuery. 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 be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Bootstrap 4
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Splitting it up


The MyPhoto webpage consists of five sections: Welcome, Services, Gallery, About, and Contact Us. The first thing we want to do is split our page into these distinct sections.

Each section will be a distinct container, so we can practically treat each section as a standalone component on the page. We want the container to take up 100% of the available horizontal space. Therefore, we will apply the container-fluid class. As we learned earlier, container-fluid allows its contents to be responsive across all resolutions, relying on the percentage width of the page, unlike the standard container class, which uses predefined horizontal breakpoints. To provide a visual cue that these are separate parts of the page, we will apply Bootstrap's contextual background classes to each section. We will also include a footer element in the page. The footer will contain miscellaneous bits of information, like legal information, but for now we will just include a placeholder:

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