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Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By : Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning
Book Image

Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By: Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning

Overview of this book

Bulma is a lightweight configurable CSS framework that handles all the hard work of Flexbox for you. Bulma makes creating web interfaces an easy and interesting job. This book begins with an overview of the basics of Bulma ? its terms and its concepts. Then, while designing a login page for your application, you’ll learn how to use the various tools provided by Bulma to create HTML forms and control their layout and flow. In the later chapters, you’ll design an admin area for your application, thus learning to use Bulma’s navigation and menu components. You will also add the components to your user interface for common things such as boxes, lists, and media groups, and then create pagination. As you progress through the book, you’ll create and layout some other components for your interface, including tables, design dropdown lists, and finally to integrate your web application with JavaScript. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the features of Bulma to your advantage and build web interfaces quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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8. Creating more tables and selecting dropdowns

Readability

Bulma is easy to learn because it’s easy to read. For example, a Bulma button simply uses the class name button.

<a class="button">
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</a>

To extend this button, Bulma provides modifier classes. They exist only as a way to provide the base button with alternative styles. To make this button use the primary turquoise color and increase its size to large, just append the classes is-primary and is-large.

<a class="button is-primary is-large">
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</a>

Tip: You might want to stick with the “primary”, “secondary” naming conventions. This will help give some meaning to your styles and it leaves it open for customization down the road.