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Learn how to add rich, interactive features like thumbnail galleries, image carousels, and web forms to your websites with Bootstrap 3.
Twitter's Bootstrap is one of the most popular HTML/CSS/JavaScript frameworks for creating responsive websites. Here, Jen Kramer shows you how to add interactive elements like a thumbnail gallery, image carousel, or contact form using Bootstrap and a simple text editor. Plus, learn to style these features with CSS and add helpful JavaScript-based pop-ups and tooltips that enhance their usability. Along the way, you can test your Bootstrap prowess with a series of challenge videos.
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Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Using the challenges
- Installing Sublime Text 2
- Installing Bootstrap 3
- Installing jQuery
- Planning the thumbnail gallery
- Creating the thumbnail gallery grid layout
- Creating the modal windows
- Linking the thumbnails to the modal windows
- Enhancing the thumbnail layout with captions
- Challenge: Styling thumbnails and modals
- Solution: Styling thumbnails and modals
- Planning the image carousel and prepping images
- Creating the image carousel
- Adding carousel navigation
- Adding captions to the carousel
- Adding and styling a carousel position indicator
- Customizing the carousel rotation interval and wrapping style
- Challenge: Create modal windows in your carousel
- Solution: Create modal windows in your carousel
- Including a text input and styling it with a grid
- Creating and formatting radio buttons
- Creating and formatting a selection dropdown menu
- Adding a comments box and tooltips
- Adding a check box and using collapse to enhance usability
- Challenge: Styling the form
- Solution: Styling the form
- Next steps