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Introduction to bootstrap


Bootstrap is the simplest framework used to create both mobile and desktop friendly responsive websites without any prior programming language experience.

 History of bootstrap

Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, developers from Twitter, developed an internal tool while working in twitter company. It was named as Twitter Blueprint. Months later, many developer from twitter started to contribute to this internal tool. Later it was renamed as Bootstrap and was released as an open source project in GitHub on 19th August 2011.

Compatibility with browsers and devices

Bootstrap is compatible with all the latest versions of web browsers namely Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari, Android Browser and WebView.

 How to get the bootstrap?

Bootstrap can be included from the Content Delivery Network(CDN) into the webpage or it can be downloaded from the official website

 Bootstrap usage guidelines

  1. Webpage should have HTML5 doctype 
  2. Viewport meta tag utilization 
  3. For internet explorer web browser,it should meet the latest rendering mode

Covering all above guidelines, your page will look as shown below

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-y3tfxAZXuh4HwSYylfB+J125MxIs6mR5FOHamPBG064zB+AFeWH94NdvaCBm8qnd" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.2/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-vZ2WRJMwsjRMW/8U7i6PWi6AlO1L79snBrmgiDpgIWJ82z8eA5lenwvxbMV1PAh7" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Responsive meta tag is added to ensure proper rendering and zooming on all the devices with different viewports.


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