Chapter 6
Styling with Bootstrap
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding what Bootstrap does
Using the Bootstrap Icons library
Viewing layouts created with Bootstrap
Creating web page elements using Bootstrap
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony, or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
— THURGOOD MARSHALL
Bootstrap is a free toolkit that allows users to create web pages quickly and with great consistency. In 2011 two Twitter developers, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, created the toolkit for internal use at Twitter and soon afterward released it to the general public. Before Bootstrap, developers would create common web page features over and over again and each time slightly differently, leading to increased time spent on maintenance. Bootstrap has become one of the most popular tools used in creating websites and is used by NASA and Newsweek for their websites. With a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, you can use and customize Bootstrap layouts and elements ...
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