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2. It Begins with CSS

Jörg Krause1 
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Berlin, Germany
 

Before you begin to use Bootstrap, you should understand the basics of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Bootstrap is able to handle most of the obstacles and pitfalls of CSS. This means that a basic knowledge of CSS is enough for a beginner to handle Bootstrap-driven web sites. This chapter will give you a short introduction to CSS. It’s not my intention to provide you with in-depth coverage of CSS, as there are many resources available.

CSS is a layout and formatting language for creating and formatting markup languages such as HTML. Ideally, the HTML document contains only semantic information, and with ...

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