I'm going to be making changes to Twitter Boostrap to generate my own theme and would like some kind of cheat sheet that shows the results from tweaking the styles and CSS.
Ideally maybe a single web page with all the Twitter Boostrap elements in it would be great instead of the Bootstrap documentation which has them spread out.
Even better would be a page with annotations on the various elements to show the result of your changes to the variables.less file.
Does anyone know of any resources that I should look at? Thanks in advance.
I created Bootply exactly for this purpose. Bootply is a "jsfiddle" style app that lets you edit Bootstrap friendly HTML, JS and CSS. It includes Bootstrap and jQuery for you, and there are also Bootstrap snippets that you can select from the toolbar and paste into the editor. Just click 'Run' to see your results.
Bootply features
Toolbar with all Bootstrap CSS, Components, and Javascript
Name, tag and share working Bootstrap examples
Preview in full screen or mobile/responsive
Include FontAwesome, jQueryUI and other Bootstrap-ready extensions
Test different Bootstrap versions
http://www.bootply.com
Also, this test page is useful for seeing all of the available elements at once.
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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
I am trying to build my own theme, but I am looking for a good markup page that has all the components and buttons, and navs, and such all on one page. I have tried to create one myself and I just don't have everything that you would see on a theme preview website. Is there a good markup available?
I'm not sure if i get you right, but normaly those both links should give you a good starting point! very well documented:
Bootstrap getting started
Bootstrap Components
Talking about that you can find it in the bootstrap website.
In the components of that site.This component tab has all the components but you can also check the javascript tab
http://getbootstrap.com/components/
http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/
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
I recently found out about twitter bootstrap and I have been diving deep into the most recent version, Bootstrap 3. On the website, there is an example for an "Off Canvas" template (here: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/offcanvas/ ) which I have been modifying. But there are several things in the example that do not make sense to me.
In the "Off Canvas" template example, there are div elements that reference classes such as "row-offcanvas", "row-offcanvas-right", and "sidebar-offcanvas". I cannot find these in the bootstrap.css, and neither do I see these in the Chrome DevTools. I also do not see any effect when I remove these classes. Do these classes have any purpose? Or was it a mistake in the example to include those seemingly non-existent classes?
As #mgttlinger mentioned the css is defined at offcanvas.css See http://getbootstrap.com/examples/offcanvas/offcanvas.css
If want to a walk through of how it works see http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/13-11-05/creating-a-rwd-off-canvas-layout-with-bootstrap-3.aspx. It uses http://getbootstrap.com/examples/offcanvas/ as the starting point and explains the css used to create off canvas.
http://bradfrost.github.io/this-is-responsive/patterns.html#off-canvas is an excellent resource for more background on off canvas and most other responsive design patterns.
If you look at the page source closely you will find that in the header there is
<!-- Custom styles for this template -->
<link href="offcanvas.css" rel="stylesheet">
These classes are defined in there. And at least for me it does make a clearly visible difference if I remove this.
i did experience the same dunno what i did wrong but js didnt seems to work i just remove all codes and link back all js and css not working. So i try other js on my other folders it work and copy them on my empty offcanvas page it works. Then put back all templates code and it works fine now i guess its my machine some components stop responding maybe just try restart.