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Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints - Second Edition

By : Ian Whitney, David Cochran
Book Image

Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints - Second Edition

By: Ian Whitney, David Cochran

Overview of this book

Packed with trade secrets, this second edition is your one-stop solution to creating websites that will provide the best experience for your users. We cover six popular, real-world examples, where each project teaches you about the various functionalities of Bootstrap 4 and their implementation. The book starts off by getting you up and running with the new features of Bootstrap 4 before gradually moving on to customizing your blog with Bootstrap and SASS, building a portfolio site, and turning it into a WordPress theme. In the process, you will learn to recompile Bootstrap files using SASS, design a user interface, and integrate JavaScript plugins. Towards the end of the book, you will also be introduced to integrating Bootstrap 4 with popular application frameworks such as Angular 2, Ruby on Rails, and React.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Styling the options sidebar


Now, let's style our filtering options. These appear just before the markup for our product items. In small, medium, and large viewports, they appear as a left-hand sidebar.

At the moment, they appear like the following screenshot:

For our final design, we want to transform the Clearance Sale link into an attractive extra-large button and arrange the filtering options into two columns with checkboxes rather than bullets, as shown in the following screenshot:

Let's begin by setting up some basic styles to lay a basic groundwork.

Setting up basic styles

We'll start by adjusting fonts, colors, margins, and padding.

Let's add these rules to a new Sass partial called _grid-options.scss:

.grid-options { 
  @extend .card; 
  padding-top: 12px; 
  padding-bottom: 24px; 
  > h2 { 
    margin-top: 0; 
    font-size: 1.3 * ($font-size-lg); 
    line-height: 1.2; 
    color: $gray-dark;   
  } 
} 

The preceding code does...