You're reading from The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide Customize and extend Bootstrap 5 with Sass and JavaScript to create unique website designs

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076432

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Bootstrap

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Jeppe Schaumburg Jensen

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part One – Customizing Bootstrap 5 with Sass

2. Chapter 1: Why and How to Customize Bootstrap FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using and Compiling Sass

4. Chapter 3: Downloading and Exploring the Bootstrap 5 Sass Files

5. Chapter 4: Bootstrap 5 Global Options and Colors

6. Chapter 5: Customizing Various Bootstrap 5 Elements

7. Chapter 6: Understanding and Using the Bootstrap 5 Utility API

8. Part Two – Creating a Unique-Looking Website Based on Bootstrap 5 and Customization

9. Chapter 7: Creating the Website Using Default Bootstrap 5 Elements

10. Chapter 8: Customizing the Website Using Bootstrap 5 Variables, Utility API, and Sass

11. Chapter 9: Improving the Website with Interactive Features Using JavaScript

12. Part Three – Advanced Topics Related to Bootstrap 5

13. Chapter 10: Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced Sass and CSS Features

14. Chapter 11: Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced JavaScript Features

15. Chapter 12: Optimizing Bootstrap 5 CSS and JavaScript Code

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Extending Bootstrap 5 classes for semantic HTML

When using Bootstrap 5, you can end up adding a lot of classes to your markup, which will make it hard to swap out the Bootstrap 5 styles with your own set of styles, should you wish to do that sometime in the future. Instead, you can choose to only use semantic HTML elements, while still using the Bootstrap 5 styling. Your HTML can have no classes at all or only the classes you choose (and the naming of these classes as well). So, the structure of the HTML and the (optional) classes can be anything you want.

To understand why this might be desirable, we will consider the Bootstrap 5 CSS rulesets as two different things:

A set of styling rules (the CSS declaration blocks)
A vocabulary for these styling rules (the selectors)

We want the benefits of the styling rules, but we don’t want to rely on its vocabulary, which is the specific Bootstrap 5 classes. We can achieve this by using semantic HTML on our page...