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Mastering Bootstrap 4

You're reading from   Mastering Bootstrap 4 Learn how to build beautiful and highly customizable web interfaces by leveraging the power of Bootstrap 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783981120
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Improving navigation using Scrollspy

Now that we have fixated the navbar at the top of the page, it will no longer disappear as the user scrolls down the page. But now we are faced with a new problem. As the user clicks on a navbar item, they have no way of telling which section of the site they are visiting, or whether the section has loaded successfully without actually examining the section's content. Wouldn't it be nice if the user could tell which section they are currently visiting by looking at the navbar? To this end, we would need to find a way of highlighting the navbar items based on the user's navigation. For example, if the user is browsing the Services section, then we would need to update the color of the Services navbar item.

Luckily, Bootstrap comes equipped with a plugin that allows us to automatically update the navbar items based on the user's navigation. Take a look at the following screenshot:

Improving navigation using Scrollspy

Figure 4.2: Currently, all navbar items are the same...

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