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Creating Interfaces with Bulma

You're reading from   Creating Interfaces with Bulma Create impressive web interfaces with this open-source Flexbox-based CSS framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
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ISBN-13 9781800209374
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface
1. Introduction 2. Understanding Bulma, terminology, and concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating and controlling forms with Bulma 4. Creating navigations and vertical menus 5. Creating responsive grids with common components 6. Creating breadcrumbs and file upload fields 7. Creating tables and selecting dropdowns 8. Creating more tables and selecting dropdowns 9. Creating notifications and cards 10. Using Bulma with Vanilla JavaScript 11. Using Bulma with Angular 12. Using Bulma with VueJS 13. Using Bulma with React 14. Customizing Bulma

Custom rules

Because Bulma is written in Sass, you can use all of the language’s features:

  • variables
  • nesting
  • mixins
  • extends

You have already used new variables. To customize the design even more, you can use extends and nesting.

All of the code from now on has to be written at the end of the file, after having imported Bulma.

Second font

Bulma doesn’t have a second font family. So you have to write your own CSS rules. Luckily, the classes are easy to extend.

After @import "node_modules/bulma/bulma";, write the following:

%heading {
  font-family: $family-heading;
  font-weight: 500;
}

This is a Sass placeholder: this allows you to combine multiple selectors into a single rule.

Bigger controls

The Bulma controls (buttons, inputs, select dropdown, pagination links...) are redefined in this new design: slightly bigger, with no inner shadow or border.

The new control size will be re-used a few times, so it’s better to define a new variable:

$control...
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