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50 Must-have plugins for extending Twitter Bootstrap

50 Must-have plugins for extending Twitter Bootstrap
Martin Angelov You most certainly know about Twitter Bootstrap – the popular front end framework for building websites and apps. It favors simple, responsive design, and comes bundled with a sensible default stylesheet, a number of useful jQuery plugins and an icon set. Although it doesn’t come with much else, Bootstrap is very extensible. Bootstrap Drag And Drop Builder Bootstrap Studio is a powerful drag and drop builder for the Bootstrap framework. Website Bootstrap Studio Collections of Bootstrap Enhancements Here we will show you two collections of Bootstrap plugins that extend the framework with useful functionality. Fuel UX Fuel UX is an incredible collection of enhancements to Twitter Bootstrap. Website | Github Fuel UX Jasny Jasny is another collection of useful interface components for bootstrap. Website | Github Jasny Bootstrap Galleries It is worth noting that you can use any regular jQuery plugin with your bootstrap-powered website. Bootstrap Lightbox Website | Github Bootstrap Lightbox

Simple Sidebar - Bootstrap Sidebar Template Need a Custom Build? If you like this theme, but need something a bit more custom, you can hire the Start Bootstrap design team to create a custom version of this template! Email us at feedback@startbootstrap.com for more information! Theme Description: Simple Sidebar is a basic sidebar menu page layout for Bootstrap websites with off canvas navigation on smaller screen sizes. Theme Features: Responsive Bootstrap sidebar navigation Off-canvas navigation toggling on smaller screens Responsive page content area Similar Themes & Templates: Tags: Please visit our resources page for design ideas and our help page if you need assistance with this theme. 18 Useful Twitter Bootstrap Goodies You Should Know Introduction Twitter Bootstrap is one of my favourite framework for quick website prototyping and default style for my CMS. If you don't know about Twitter Bootstrap, it's a simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions. Created by the developers from Twitter, this great tool contains base CSS, grid, responsive, general styling, UI components and javascript plugins that can speed up your development process. I have been using it for a while now, it allowed me to have full concentration on the functionality of the website instead of cross browsing testing and styling. In this post, I have found many useful tools, plugins and themes created specifically for Twitter Bootstrap. Update I also created a post about third party Twitter Bootstrap javascript plugins - Extend Twitter Bootstrap Javascript Plugins. Everybody seems to like this post a lot, it's mentioned on The Treehouse Show! Tools - Wireframing, Generators and Template

CSS Get the lowdown on the key pieces of Bootstrap's infrastructure, including our approach to better, faster, stronger web development. HTML5 doctype Bootstrap makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype. <! Mobile first With Bootstrap 2, we added optional mobile friendly styles for key aspects of the framework. To ensure proper rendering and touch zooming, add the viewport meta tag to your <head>. You can disable zooming capabilities on mobile devices by adding user-scalable=no to the viewport meta tag. Bootstrap sets basic global display, typography, and link styles. Set background-color: #fff; on the body Use the @font-family-base, @font-size-base, and @line-height-base attributes as our typographic base Set the global link color via @link-color and apply link underlines only on :hover These styles can be found within scaffolding.less. Normalize.css Containers Easily center a page's contents by wrapping its contents in a .container. .col-md-1

CSS Flip Animation You've all asked for it and now I've added it: Internet Explorer support! Annoyingly enough, the change involves rotate the front and back elements instead of just the container. Skip to this section if you'd like the Internet Explorer code. IE10+ is supported; IE9 does not support CSS animations. CSS animations are a lot of fun; the beauty of them is that through many simple properties, you can create anything from an elegant fade in to a WTF-Pixar-would-be-proud effect. One CSS effect somewhere in between is the CSS flip effect, whereby there's content on both the front and back of a given container. Quick note: this is not the first tutorial about this effect, but I've found the others over-complicated. The HTML The HTML structure to accomplish the two-sided effect is as you would expect it to be: There are two content panes, "front" and "back", as you would expect, but also two containing elements with very specific roles explained by their CSS. The CSS CSS Flip Toggle CSS Vertical Flip

Create Custom Icons for Twitter Bootstrap Easily - Tutorial Twitter bootstrap is one of the most effective frameworks available online at the moment to speed up frontend web development process. We have covered it in our previous post before, we reckon it’s the ultimate frontend framework which covers almost all UI. It has base CSS, grid layout, responsive layout, general base styling for all HTML elements such as buttons, form, table, a good collection of UI components and a dozen of javascript plugins. Also, there are quite a few extensions such as extra javascript plugins, themes, skin, generators available online for Twitter bootstrap, for more useful tools that extend the capability, you can read from this post – 18 Useful Twitter Boostrap Goodies You Should Know. Currently, this bootstrap is using icons provided by Glyphicons, it’s minimal and simple icons. Step 1: Get the icons We downloaded FamFamFam Silk Icon set, and it has total of 1000 icons for free! Step 2: Create the Sprite Settings And the CSS code looks something like this: css Done!

Bootstrap 3 responsive grid psd templates · Minimit Five psd templates for designing with the responsive grid of Bootstrap 3 Updated 21/05/2015 - Added the template bootstrap3-1560px.psd with container-fluid of 1560px With the new Bootstrap 3 grid you have gutter width and column width different from the ones in Bootstrap 2, and the container width includes two half gutter padding on the sides. In the download above you can find the grid templates for the three main breakpoints of bootstrap 3 (1170px, 970px, 750px), plus two grids for mobile (480px, 320px), all with the default 30px gutter. On the mobile grids (480px, 320px) the minimum column size is col-xs-2, because col-xs-1 breaks the grid in the browser with a viewport of 320px.

3D card flipping | CSS transitions, CSS transforms and CSS animation Part of the design for the Southampton Hackney Association included a grid of sponsors. The design was such that on hover or click, they would flip over revealing a contact number, email address or URL. We wanted this site to work on browsers that didn't support 3D transforms, as at the time, only webkit had support. Code path for browsers with 3D transforms The code used is exactly as above. The markup consists of a div, containing two divs for the back and front faces. Fallback In older browsers, jQuery Flip is used. Due to issues with getting jQuery flip to work on hover, the behaviour was changed to work on click. Using this technique, the effect works on all browsers in use, back to IE6. Part of the design for the Southampton Hackney Association included a grid of sponsors. Code path for browsers with 3D transforms The code used is exactly as above. Fallback In older browsers, jQuery Flip is used. Using this technique, the effect works on all browsers in use, back to IE6. Fallback

Bootstrap, from Twitter Bootstrap was built with Preboot, an open-source pack of mixins and variables to be used in conjunction with Less, a CSS preprocessor for faster and easier web development. Check out how we used Preboot in Bootstrap and how you can make use of it should you choose to run Less on your next project. How to use it Use this option to make full use of Bootstrap’s Less variables, mixins, and nesting in CSS via javascript in your browser. Not feeling the .js solution? What’s included Here are some of the highlights of what’s included in Twitter Bootstrap as part of Bootstrap. Variables Variables in Less are perfect for maintaining and updating your CSS headache free. Commenting Less also provides another style of commenting in addition to CSS’s normal /* ... */ syntax. // This is a comment/* This is also a comment */ Mixins up the wazoo Mixins are basically includes or partials for CSS, allowing you to combine a block of code into one. Font stacks Gradients Operations Compiling Less Ways to compile

Bootstrap 4 grid only That's it nothing more, nothing less just the lovely Bootstrap 4 grid on it's own. The Bootstrap 4 grid now has even more power & control than the Bootstrap 3 grid did so even on those projects where you don't want all the Bootstrap components you can be selective and just pull out the components you need, in this case the Bootstrap grid! Here's how we did it: Setup We have the following folder structure: cssscssplugins Download the Bootstrap 4 full source from GitHub: rename it bootstrap and place it in the plugins folder. Scss Here's what we do next: First we import the Bootstrap _variables.scss & _mixins.scss which are required to compile the Bootstrap Scss.Next there's the change to override any of the variables set in the the Bootstrap _variables.scss file. If you don't want to mess around with Sass scroll below for the CSS version. @import '.. Coming up

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