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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Jakobus
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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Jakobus

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. 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 will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Progress indicators


Although unfitting of the context in which we are developing MyPhoto, progress indicators form an important part of many user interfaces. As such, it is worth pointing out that Bootstrap comes with some very nice styles for the progress element present in HTML5. To date, the following classes are available:

  • progress for applying a default progress bar style.
  • progress-bar for denoting the actual progress-bar element.
  • bg-* for applying context styles. Specifically, bg-success, bg-info,  bg-warning, and bg-danger.
  • progress-bar-striped for adding stripes to the progress bar, and progress-animated for animating the added stripes (note that animations are not supported by all browsers currently).
  • progress-bar-animated for animating a striped progress bar.

Using the listed classes, we can create any number of differently styled progress bars (figure 4.21). Consider the given example:

<div class="progress">
    <div class="progress-bar bg-success" style="width: 50%">&lt...