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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

Display properties and alignment


Display helpers and alignment helpers form an important aspect of Bootstrap's utility classes. The latter are classes that allow you to quickly set the display property of an element, while alignment utilities can be used to change the vertical alignment of elements whose display property is set to either inline or inline-block. Let's look at each type of helper class individually.

Display helpers

Display helper classes allow you to quickly set the display property of an element, and in the previous chapters we have already come across some of these helper classes (for example, d-none). The classes are prefixed with the letter d, followed by a dash and the name of the property value to which you wish to set the element's display:

  • d-none is akin to writing display: none; and hides the given element
  • d-block is akin to writing display: block; and will force the element to which it is applied to span the full width of the available space
  • d-inline is akin to writing...