Chapter 1: Why and How to Customize Bootstrap

Bootstrap is an open source, frontend framework used to quickly design, develop, and customize responsive, mobile-first websites. It has a flexible grid system, a great variety of prebuilt accessible and interactive components, and many useful helpers and utilities.

Bootstrap comes with predefined CSS styles for all its components. These styles cover everything from typography and colors to sizes and spacing, as well as breakpoints, options for the grid system, and more. Bootstrap 5 can be used with the default styles out of the box, but it is also possible to customize this in different ways.

In this chapter, you will learn when you would want to customize Bootstrap, what can be customized (and ...

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