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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

Adding content using media objects


As you add more contents to your website or web application, you will notice that a large proportion of this content revolves around the text aligned next to an image. Indeed, text and image alignment form the basis from which most modern websites are built, and combining these two elements into a reusable component results in what are called media objects (Figure 4.20). Take a look at the following screenshot:

Figure 4.20: A media object refers to the combination of a title, text, and image element in such a way that they form a reusable entity.

Given how fundamental these media objects are to a website's content, it is of no surprise that Bootstrap 4 offers out-of-the-box support for them. Let's see how we can make use of Bootstrap's media-object to improve the appearance of our About Us section. One suggestion for improvement could be to add some profile information about one of the photographers at MyPhoto. To do so, go ahead and create a new div...