Bootstrap Tutorials

Last Updated : 17 Jun, 2020

Bootstrap is a free and open-source tool collection for creating responsive websites and web applications. It is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile-first web sites. Nowadays, the websites are perfect for all the browsers (IE, Firefox and Chrome) and for all sizes of screens (Desktop, Tablets, Phablets, and Phones). All thanks to Bootstrap developers – Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton of Twitter, though it was later declared to be an open-source project.

Why Bootstrap?

Faster and Easier Web-Development.
It creates Platform-independent web-pages.
It creates Responsive Web-pages.
It designed to be responsive to mobile devices too.
It is Free! Available on www.getbootstrap.com

How to use Bootstrap 4 in webpage: There are two ways to include Bootstrap in the website.

Include Bootstrap from CDN link:
Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    
<head>
    <title>Bootstrap Example</title>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        
    <!-- Bootstrap CSS library -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href=
"https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"
    integrity=
"sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T"
    crossorigin="anonymous">
    
    <!-- jQuery library -->
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" 
    integrity=
"sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo"
    crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    
    <!-- JS library -->
    <script src=
"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js"
    integrity=
"sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1"
    crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    
    <!-- Latest compiled JavaScript library -->
    <script src=
"https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"
    integrity=
"sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM"
    crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    </head>
<body>

<div class="container">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <p>A computer science portal for geeks</p> 
</div>

</body>
</html>

Output:

Download Bootstrap from getbootstrap.com and use it:
- Goto www.getbootstrap.com and click Getting Started. Click on the Download Bootstrap button.
- A.zip file would get downloaded. Extract it and go in the distribution folder. It contains two folders named as CSS and JS.
  
  <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”css/bootstrap.min.css”>
  
  <script src=”js/bootstrap.min.js”> </script>
  <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js”>
  </script>
- Add the file link to the HTML document and then open the web page using web browsers.
Example:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    
<head>
    <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  
    <meta charset="utf-8">
  
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" 
            href="css/bootstrap.min.css">

    <script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div class="container">
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <p>A computer science portal for geeks</p> 
    </div>
</body>

</html>
```
Output:

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