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Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is the most popular open source project on GitHub today. With a little bit of know-how, this massively popular CSS framework can leveraged for any type of complex web application or website. Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand fashion. The key to any complex Bootstrap project is a strong development foundation for your project. The book will first teach you how to build a Bootstrap development environment using Harp.js, Node, and Less. In the next chapters, we’ll build on this foundation by creating restaurant and mobile-first aggregator projects. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a wiki, a new magazine, a dashboard, and finally a social networking website. Whether you are brand new to Bootstrap or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create a number of popular web applications and websites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Coding the private messages section


The next page that we are going to tackle is the private messages template. This is where you would come to send a direct message to one of your friends on the social network—a message that you want to keep private and hidden from other users. The left and right sidebars will remain the same; only the content of the center column will change.

Before we start, let's see what this page will look like:

Open the messages.ejs file and paste the page-header code at the top of the column:

<h1 class="page-header">
  Messages
  <span class="pull-right">
    <button class="btn btn-primary">New Message</button>
  </span>
</h1>

Note that in this header, I've added a <span> tag that is right aligned with a button inside of it. This is the button that a user would click on to start a new message. The span needs to be nested inside the <h1> tag as it's a block element, but we don't want to break the button onto a new line...