How Bootstrap Works

ByWalter Wimberly

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 to them. This is much like jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile, or the 960 Grid System.

The main difference is that Bootstrap includes both JavaScript widgets as well as CSS framework solutions. It does have a more of focus on CSS layout, but still provides some scripting solutions to widgets.

This is unlike jQuery’s frameworks, which are more focused JavaScript solutions – which makes sense given jQuery’s position in the web world. Or any of the CSS frameworks which focus on only layout problems.

Bootstrap does actually need the base jQuery library to work.

The layout solution for Bootstrap is responsive in nature, so it will change sizes based upon the size of the display screen. If you drag one corner of your browser’s window to resize it, you can see the sections change as you resize it.

How Bootstrap Works was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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