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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
Book Image

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By: Pieter van der Westhuizen

Overview of this book

One of the leading open source frontend frameworks, Bootstrap has undergone a significant change and introduced several features that make designing compelling, next-generation UIs much simpler. Integrating Bootstrap with ASP.NET's powerful components can further enhance its capabilities. This book guides you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC website from scratch using Bootstrap. After a primer on the fundamentals of Bootstrap, you will learn your way around and create a new ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio. You will move on to learn about the various Bootstrap components as well as techniques to include them in your own projects. The book includes practical examples to show you how to use open-source plugins with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC and guides you through building an ASP.NET MVC website using Bootstrap, utilizing layout and user-interface components. At the end of this book, you will find some valuable tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Bootstrap-integrated and ASP.NET MVC-integrated website.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Progress bars


Progress bars are a metaphor used with traditional desktops as well as web development to provide visual feedback to a user on the progress of a task or action. Bootstrap provides a number of different styled progress bars.

Basic progress bar

The basic Bootstrap progress bar displays a plain blue colored progress bar. Bootstrap 4 uses the HTML 5 <progress> element, with a class name of .progress, to display progress bars. The following markup generates a basic progress bar with a maximum value of 100 and current value of 50:

<progress class="progress" value="50" max="100"></progress> 

The result of the markup is shown in the following screenshot:

Contextual progress bars

You can use the same button and alert style classes to generate different colored progress bars. This is accomplished by setting the progress bar's class name to one of the following:

  • progress progress-success

  • progress progress-info

  • progress progress-warning

  • progress progress-danger

The result...