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Bootstrap Site Blueprints

You're reading from   Bootstrap Site Blueprints Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164524
Length 304 pages
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Bootstrap 2. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio FREE CHAPTER 3. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme 4. Bootstrappin' Business 5. Bootstrappin' E-commerce 6. Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website Optimizing Site Assets Implementing Responsive Images Adding Swipe to the Carousel Index

Adjusting nav item padding


Now, let's adjust our nav items so that the text of our links shares the same baseline as our logo.

In _navbar.less, find the selector .navbar-nav. It is the parent ul of our navbar items. Within this set of rules, you'll find nested media queries. (See the documentation on nested media queries at http://lesscss.org.) The relevant lines are given as follows:

// Uncollapse the nav
  @media (min-width: @grid-float-breakpoint) {
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    > li {
      float: left;
      > a {
        padding-top: ((@navbar-height - @line-height-computed) / 2);
        padding-bottom: ((@navbar-height - @line-height-computed) / 2);
      }
    }
  }

The variable @grid-float-breakpoint specifies the point at which the navbar expands to its full width or collapses to create the mobile-app-style responsive navigation. (You'll find this variable defined in _variables.less.)

At present, the padding-top and padding-bottom values are calculated to keep the text...

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