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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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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

The grid system

Bootstrap's grid system is arguably its most impressive and most commonly used feature, as it solves the important task of horizontal and vertical positioning of a page's contents, allowing the contents to be structured across multiple display widths. Therefore, mastering this core functionality is essential for any Bootstrap developer.

As already noted in Chapter 1, Revving Up Bootstrap, Bootstrap 4 is mobile-first. As such, it should come as no surprise that the grid system is optimized for smaller viewports, and it scales up to suit larger viewports (as opposed to scaling down to smaller viewports).

What is a viewport?
A viewport is the available display size to render the contents of a page, that is, it refers to your browser window, minus the toolbars and scrollbars. The viewport should not be confused with the viewport meta tag, which is used to...
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