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Bootstrap 4 By Example

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Bootstrap 4 By Example

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is a free, open source collection of tools that helps developers create websites or web applications. It provides a faster, easier, and less repetitive solution to designing and building applications. Before Bootstrap’s release, it was necessary to import a variety of libraries into your project that offered different components and features for web interface development. Plus with the increased popularity of smartphones there were lack of libraries that could handle the responsiveness of a web page. Bootstrap‘s existence let it quickly become famous as a front-end framework that offered a wide set of tools from page grid up to components that render a web page in the best possible way for any device. This book will be a tutorial covering various examples as well as step-by-step methodology to create interesting web applications using Bootstrap and to understand the front-end framework to its core. We begin with an introduction to the Bootstrap framework and setting up an environment to build a simple web page. We then cover the grid system, basic Bootstrap components, HTML elements, and customization components for responsive and mobile first development. This is presented by creating a beautiful Landing page sample. You will also learn how to create a web application like Twitter by using the full set of components offered in the framework. Finally, you will learn to create a dashboard web app, using Bootstrap to its finest potential including component customizations, event handling, and external library integration. All these examples are explained step-by-step and in depth, while covering the versions 3 and the most recent version 4 of Bootstrap. So, you will be in the state of the art for front-end development. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with the development of a plugin for the framework and Bootstrap’s world which is popular for fast paced front-end web development, used in countless projects all over the world, and now yours.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Bootstrap 4 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Playing the cards


Moving on, in our web application, we will create a new component containing the about information, named Card. We will take a break from page development to discuss this section in depth.

Cards are flexible container extensions that include internal options, such as header, footer, and other display options. In Bootstrap 4, there is a component called Card, but since we are supporting versions 3 and 4 in this book, we will teach both ways.

Learning cards in Bootstrap 4

As was mentioned before, Bootstrap 4 provides Cards components. To make use of them, create a div.card element and start adding elements such as .card-block and .card-img-top:

<div class="card">
  <img class="card-img-top img-responsive" src="imgs/landscape.jpg">
  <div class="card-block">
    <h4 class="card-title">Name</h4>
    <p class="card-text">About text</p>
    <a href="#" class="btn btn-primary">Can add buttons</a>
  </div>
</div>

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