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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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David Cochran David Cochran
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Ian Whitley Ian Whitley
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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

Creating responsive columns


We have three blocks of text, each with a heading, a short paragraph, and a link. In screen sizes of approximately tablet width or more, we would like this content to be laid out in three columns. In narrower screen widths, the content will organize itself in one full-width column.

Take a moment to visit and read the documentation for Bootstrap's mobile-first responsive grid. You can find it at http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid.

In short, the grid is based on a twelve-column system. The basic class structure allows us to use a class of col-12 for full-width, col-6 for half-width, col-4 for one-third width, and so on.

With Bootstrap 3, thanks to the creative use of media queries, Bootstrap's grid can be very adept. Recall that we want our welcome message to have a single-column layout up to tablet-sized screens, and then adapt a three-column layout at approximately 768px. Conveniently, Bootstrap has a built-in breakpoint at 768px, which is the default value of its...

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Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Published in: Feb 2014
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781782164524
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