I have been using Twitter Boostrap for my web apps. Recently, I have started liking Google's Material Design. Is there any way I can replace all the Bootstrap's Look and Feel by Material Design's? I don't wanna change the applied classes to HTML elements.
You can't move instantly from Bootstrap to Material.io without changing 1 by 1 code/syntax on bootstrap. So change it while studying everything you learned on material.io and dont be lazy.
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good day guys, i am new to web development, so apperntly, i got a work to design an ecommerce site for a client. the client wants something similar to www.gallerydept.com . But when i used inspect, i noticed the cdn is shopify's and not bootstrap and i'm only familiar with bootstrap.
how can i convert or intergrate bootstrap?
or what is the best suggestion or advice you can give me?
(please remember i'm new to web dev)
A suggestion would be - Don't use bootstrap within shopify.
Reason - Bootstrap has their own set of customizations and shopify's depends upon the theme you are using. Let's consider two scenarios:
For example, you want to create a modal popup and you directly use the bootstrap's library for the same. The look and feel will be different and then you would add your own CSS to override that - problematic thing.
Second scenario, you integrate bootstrap's cdn into shopify then all the other components styling will get affected like buttons, navbar, hrefs etc. So the flow is bootstrap's css overrided your shopify theme css and then you will override both in order to get back to the original - shortly it will become unmanageable.
But after all this I am not saying don't go ahead with this, what I have seen some people doing is utilizing only bootstrap's flexbox system to manage responsiveness in custom shopify pages (which is a good technique because bootstrap's flexbox system is pretty great). So basically what they do is take bootstrap's CSS file and remove all CSS tags not pertaining to the flexbox system and use that leftover CSS file.
And answering your doubt, what you should do now is - go with native HTML/CSS. You get stuck somewhere, SO that doubt/get the code by inspecting the website you have.
Shopify is using themes so you can start looking into tutorials on how to create themes for Shopify. Bootstrap is only controlling the look and feel of the website which is what you do. Shoppify will control the entire ecommerce functionality. So you can use Bootstrap inside the Shopify theme.
You need to be using LIQUID to code anything in Shopify and be sure not to use SCSS only CSS
I started learning django a few weeks ago and the one thing i have noticed and causes me a lot of issues, is the clarification between HTML and Bootstrap classes. I know that when you are creating a tag in HTML, you can add a class in it that can be named anything and then we usually use the class to write CSS, right? But i finished some tutorials and realized that some people just wrote a class like btn btn-warning and a button with styling automatically came up even though they didn't write any CSS for it. And then i tested it with a random name and it was plain blank. Can someone please explain all of this that why when we use some specific names that already customized tag is shown on the website.
Thanks a lot!!
HTML and bootstrap are both somehow similar. Its just that with HTML you will have to manually write all codes to perform any action however Bootstrap saves your time as it has its inbuilt tags that work for specific action.
For example you can create your own navigation bar with HTML or use navbar tag of bootstrap. The navbar however has built in functions so there is less work. You can use in by including bootstrap link in your css like:
But it's kind of tedious to edit the bootstrap tags if you sometimes want to.
And,HTML is mainly used for the basic designs and bootstrap to make it more responsive.You can know about bootstrap more here:
https://www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_bootstrap.asp
Bootstrap is basically alot of premade css classes
so when you are using Bootstrap in your site you already have those classes and you can just use them
i recommend you to go to W3School and read about it in depth
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for
developing responsive, mobile-first websites.
Bootstrap is completely free to download and use!
Bootsrap in W3School
What is a difference between Bootstrap and CSS? I read the questions in stackoverflow saying that if you want responsive website and also, you are a newbie in Styling use bootstrap! ? Is Bootstrap something for beginners?
Bootstrap is essentially a front-end Framework that makes designing webpages and the general development easier. Bootstrap uses CSS, however it's different to writing your own CSS as it's all pre done so you just add a class to a HTML element and then it will use that CSS. So for example adding the class "img-responsive" to will use the pre made img-responsive class which is in the external Bootstrap CSS file.
Bootstrap is great because it allows you to easily create a responsive, cross browser compatible website really easily. For example making the site responsive without Bootstrap would require you using Media Queries etc, whereas with Bootstrap you can just give your divs class names to make it responsive.
Essentially Bootstrap uses CSS. But it's different to writing your own CSS as it's all pre made for you and you just need to import the external CSS file made by the people at Bootstrap, and you just need to know which classes to use etc.
Bootstrap is a "framework", that is: a pre-built set of files. Included in these files is CSS. Bootstrap uses, among other things, extensive CSS classes to style websites.
You can use Bootstrap without understanding CSS but if you are a beginner you should really learn HTML & CSS first.
W3Schools is a great resource to start learning about HTML & CSS
Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end framework (library) for designing websites and web applications.
Other answers are good. In addition, some more key details:
Bootstrap 4 released in 2018, is a major rewrite from Bootstrap 3
Bootstrap 4 does not work with older browsers (IE8, IE9), some have concerns over this, if you have same concerns then learn the older Bootstrap 3
At a quick glance, Bootstrap 4 looks to have steep learning curve compared to CSS3. Needed a grid for a small project, for simplicity & for learning CSS3 fundamentals (as other answer pointed), chose CSS3 over bootstrap. (CSS3 Grid, looks simple to code, examples: link1, link2, link3, link4, link5. Detailed description is here)
On additional note
if you are using React.js
then you could use material ui, see below links:
https://material-ui.com/getting-started/installation/
https://material-ui.com/components/buttons/
I am pretty new in WordPress and BootStrap CSS framework and I have the following doubt:
I have installed this theme that integrate BootStrap framework and I want to use it as a start point: http://bootstrapwp.rachelbaker.me/
I have change the background color of the homepage changing the background-color property into the body field in a file named bootstrapwp.css inside my theme using FireBug plugin
Ok...my doubts are:
1) Why this CSS file is named bootstrapwp.css and not bootstrap.css as in the downloaded BootStrap 3 framework? And why this file is slightly different form the dowloaded bootstrap.css file?
2) What is the better way to change a style in BootStra? I can change it directly inside my bootstrapwp.css or is better do it in another file overriding this behavior?
Tnx
Andrea
Andrea:
There are a lot of answers for your questions but I will work to simplify it for you.
First, what the developers are trying to do is get Bootstrap functionality within the Wordpress CMS. They are two entirely different animals. Bootstrap consists of individual pages that must be hand coded. Wordpress is a Content Management System (CMS) where you can apply a style, theme, sidebar, template or widget and have it appear on every page site-wide.
So, what the developer is doing is using the bootstrapwp.css file to handle the CSS for the entire Bootstrap themed Wordpress site. Remember, this is NOT a Bootstrap site. It is a Bootstrap themed Wordpress site that seeks to incorporate the functionality and design of Bootstrap within the confines of the Wordpress Codex.
If you're running a Wordpress site, the best way to change a style is always going to be in the CSS file provided by the child theme.
You can try Impulse Press. It's the most complete Wordpress Bootstrap 3 starter Theme
Take a look at the demo impulsepress.twoimpulse.com
with this you can change your css style in bootstrap-theme.css and don't touch bootstrap.css , so when we have an update it doesn't ruin your site styles
And Vincent Polisi is right, you can also make a child theme and get Impulse Press always updated
I need to add responsive design features to my web application using Twitter Bootstrap. I just want the responsive behavior, I'm not interested in the typography, components or any other stuff included in Bootstrap.
I got a customized Bootstrap version just selecting the grid system. However, when I add the generated CSS to my application, all my styles are messed up (header, links and others). Why is that happening? How can I get a Bootstrap CSS with just the grid system? I would like to avoid a manual modification of the Bootstrap files.
Go to http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ and toggle just what you want from the BS3 framework and then click "Compile and Download" and you'll get the CSS and JS that you chose.
Open up the CSS and remove all but the grid. They include some normalize stuff too. And you'll need to adjust all the styles on your site to box-sizing: border-box - http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_box-sizing.asp
Checkout zirafa/bootstrap-grid-only. It contains only the bootstrap grid and responsive utilities that you need (no reset or anything), and simplifies the complexity of working directly with the LESS files.
Just choose Grid system and "responsive utilities"
it gives you this: http://jsfiddle.net/7LVzs/
Made a Grunt build with the Bootstrap 3.3.5 grid only:
https://github.com/horgen/grunt-builds/tree/master/bootstrap-grid
~10KB minimized.
If you need some other parts from Bootstrap just include them in /src/less/bootstrap.less.
I would suggest using MDO's http://getpreboot.com/ instead. As of v2, preboot back ports the LESS mixins/variables used to create the Bootstrap 3.0 Grid System and is much more light weight than using the CSS generator. In fact, if you only include preboot.less there is NO overhead because the entire file is made up of mixins/variables and therefore are only used in pre-compilation and not the final output.
It looks like you can download just the grid now on Bootstrap 4s new download features.
It's been a while since this question was asked, but maybe now you can forego Bootstrap altogether and use CSS Grid! (it's simpler, neater, more flexible and faster). See this cool article: Stop using Bootstrap — create a practical CSS Grid template for your component based UI
In Bootstrap 4, there are already separated files in their GitHub. You can find them here
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/main/dist/css