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Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints

You're reading from   Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints Design mobile-first responsive websites with Bootstrap 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889653
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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David Cochran David Cochran
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Ian Whitney Ian Whitney
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Bootstrap 2. Creating Your Own Build Process with Gulp FREE CHAPTER 3. Customizing Your Blog with Bootstrap and Sass 4. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme 5. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio 6. Bootstrappin' Business 7. Bootstrappin' E-Commerce 8. Bootstrappin' a One-Page Marketing Website 9. Building an Angular 2 App with Bootstrap

Styling the horizontal navbar


When you move your mouse over the navbar links, you'll find that the hover background color of the link is smaller than the height of the navbar:

You can solve this issue by applying padding on the links instead of the navbar. Use the following SCSS code in the file to change the padding:

.navbar {
  @include media-breakpoint-up(md) {
    padding-top: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
  }
  .nav-link
  {
    padding: $spacer;
    @include media-breakpoint-only(md) {
      padding: $spacer-y ($spacer-x / 2);
    } 
  }
}  

Now your navbar links should look like the following screenshot:

And finally, let's transform the text to upper case, reduce its size a bit, and make it bold. In _navbar.scss, add these highlighted lines:

  .nav-link 
  { 
    padding: $spacer; 
    @include media-breakpoint-up(md) { 
     text-transform: uppercase; 
     font-size: 82%; 
     font-weight: bold; &...
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