Responsive images are fairly easy to control, both in and out of Bootstrap. Generally, the problem will be that we need to make sure an image doesn’t expand past the size of its containing element if it is going to potentially be scaled down. This can be done in CSS with max-width: 100% Bootstrap gives…
You will often need to add a button to a webpage. This could be for a form, or part of an interface where you are wanting to create a special link to a page. Generally you can use the button tag, although you can also use a anchor tag. You will want to add some…
While a lot of layout in a website can be done with your grids, you don’t want to necessarily use grids to display tabular data. Therefore, you want to use a table. Bootstrap has given us several CSS classes that we can use to easier layout our tables. For basic styling, you will only want…
Bootstrap comes with a grid system you can use. It has 12 columns that are available, and they take up 100% of the content’s width. This allows the grid to resize depending upon the size of the browser window. Once it reaches a certain size, the items will auto adjust to a new row, to…
Bootstrap sets the fonts and typography as part of its layout. However, they’ve added several classes to help you out. Headings For example, they have classes that mimic your heading tags. So if you need a large size text, like an H1, but it’s not appropriate to add an H1 tag, you can apply the…
Bootstrap considers two different types of customizations. These customizations can either come from yourself, and/or a 3rd party. Light customizations – which include changing minor things like color and font changes. Overhauls – which change the way a class functions. Make sure you find the Bootstrap selector, and use the same selector. This keeps you…
Installation is like what the installation for any CSS or JavaScript framework for any website. You can either download the files from http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/, or you can link to it via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Requiring jQuery Regardless of which version you use, you will still need to include jQuery if you are going to…
Bootstrap is becoming a popular web layout system for the web. It was started by a designer/developer who worked at Twitter in 2010, and currently is at version 3.1.1. Bootstrap is a web framework. This means that it has identified common problems that web designer and developers run into, and tries to provide easy solutions…
