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Mastering Bootstrap 4

You're reading from   Mastering Bootstrap 4 Master the latest version of Bootstrap 4 to build highly customized responsive web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834902
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Benjamin Jakobus Benjamin Jakobus
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Revving Up Bootstrap FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Style Statement 3. Building the Layout 4. On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content 5. Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins 6. Customizing Your Plugins 7. Advanced Third-Party Plugins 8. Utilities 9. List Groups and Accordions 10. Optimizing Your Website 11. Integrating with AngularJS and React 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Text alignment and transformation


Using the grid system, we learned how to lay out a website's basic building blocks. However, generally we need an additional level of control that allows us to more finely align the content contained within these building blocks. This level of control is provided by Bootstrap's text alignment classes:

  • text-justify justifies the text so that it fills an entire area evenly
  • text-nowrap ensures that the text does not wrap onto the next line (refer to Figure 8.6)
  • text-truncate will truncate longer text with an ellipsis (refer to Figure 8.6):

Figure 8.6: Applying the text-nowrap and text-truncate classes to long bodies of text; the text in the first paragraph has the text-nowrap class applied, and therefore does not wrap onto the next line, but continues on the same line instead

The text-<position> and text-<breakpoint>-<position> classes can be used to position text by setting the text-align property for an element. Bootstrap defines the non-response...

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