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
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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
Can we use bootstrap in an already made HTML5 template without changing the structure of the code?
Depends on which functionality you want to use. But if you are planning to use responsive grid, and you didn't use similar grid in HTML before, then the answer is no.
If you already used similar grid (grid that uses classes to specify breakpoints), then you could theoretically rename classes in bootstrap to match your own classes.
You can customize Bootstrap and use in your project only what you really need.
Check in the documentation which JavaScript plugin you need and how to change the collapsed mobile navbar breakpoint.
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 have site created already which is not bootstrap, and now i need to implement the bootstrapValidator for the validation purpose, if i include bootstrap css then my site style also changing,
Is there any way to include bootstrap form styles alone in html, apart from cut copy in bootstrap css file?
You can use the Bootstrap Customizer
and check only the "form" checkbox to download only the part you need...
Use customize css download from bootstrap site, here you see the options of customizations. You can choose what you want in your CSS. Or you can use less css, download the bootstrap less master from github and compile theme as per your project needs.
The only way to do this is to find a stylesheet that someone else took the time to copy / paste from the Bootstrap. I've done this on several occasions, and its pretty simple as all the form-styling elements are placed next to each other in the bootstrap stylesheet.
So, find you scissors :)
You can't import a part of a css file, so you can copy/paste your desires classes on your actual css or rename your classes in your css file to not have conflicts with bootstrap's classes name and then your site's style will not change when you include bootstrap.
Do you know a source for pure CSS Templates? After setting up a simple Web Project I always wish to have a CSS file to:
Set reasonable font settings for paragraphs and headers
Polish my anchor tags
Style my forms (if I have to touch the HTML for this one - no problem)
Style my tables (I use headers and footers etc) using even & odd
Maybe give me some handy classes for error boxes, etc.
So if I Google for a such CSS file I find CSS Homepage Templates with HTML Structure and massive CSS which I can't use without changing much. I find CSS examples for perfect tables, other examples for perfect forms but what I don't find is a single CSS File which when loaded in a properly formatted HTML website will make it look "okay" instead of the pure HTML look.
Do you get me?
Does anybody have a hint for me?
Twitter Bootstrap might interested you but I believe it has a bit of javascript in it as well.
Edit: As mentioned in comment you can use many of the Bootstrap features without using any javascript.
I've personally used bootstrap and I love it. I've also bookmarked few others to play with when bandwidth permits.
Bootstrap
Blueprint
960 Grid
Update: On related matter, I would also checkout CSS Preprocessors such as Sass and LESS that could help in writing better CSS and build up a custom library to use across projects.
Perhaps try the CSS off of Twitter Bootstrap. Provides all sorts of consistent styling that's simple but elegant, in addition to some fancier element behaviors.
Update:
Adding to Yonix's related list, the following are alternative CSS preprocessors, which makes working with CSS a little more digestible:
Compass
Stylus
There's a bit of a learning curve when teaching yourself CSS, but some basic CSS is easier than you think.
For quick prototyping/wireframing and pre-made HTML templates, I use Zurb Foundation, as compared to Twitter Bootstrap. My advice is to familiarize yourself with their online documentation and delve into the main CSS file (foundation.css). You can build on top of that CSS file with the provided app.css file.
It comes with a lot of pre-made styles (buttons, forms, etc) and everything is responsive (fits on any size screen). You can choose to include all the plugins, or just the HTML and CSS. It also has an option to download the HTML templates, which come with a variety a layouts, such as a blog or a basic structure. I absolutely love it!