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<a href="#">Home <span class="badge">36</span></a>
This code will generate a link with an inline badge that provides important notifications to the user, such as number received or unread messages or number of friend requests. Badges are most commonly used in message applications and social networking sites.
Consider the HTML code snippet below.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="Example tooltip">Hover over me</button>
What is missing for a tooltip to show properly?
Bootstrap’s Tooltip plugin is not CSS-only, like other plugins are. For performance reasons, the Tooltip plugin is opt-in, and to use it you must initialize it using JavaScript with the following example code:
$(function () {
$('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip();
});
What is the difference between the following two lines of code?
$('#myModalPrompt').modal({ keyboard: false });
$.fn.modal.Constructor.DEFAULTS.keyboard = false;
Explain your answer.
The first line will initialize a modal dialog prompt with id #myModalPrompt, and set only it to ignore keyboard event. The second line will change the default settings for the modal plugin by modifying the plugin’s Constructor.DEFAULTS object, and will have an impact on all modal dialog prompts.
Consider the HTML code snippet below. What will the output be, and why?
<div class="progress">
<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-success" style="width: 65%">
<span class="sr-only">65% sucesfuly completed</span>
</div>
<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-warning" style="width: 20%">
<span class="sr-only">20% completed with warnings</span>
</div>
<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-danger" style="width: 15%">
<span class="sr-only">15% did not complete</span>
</div>
</div>
By placing multiple bars under the same .progress parent element, Bootstrap will stack them into one single progress bar. Since the sum of the progress bar is 100%, the progress bar will be full width and fully populated.
What will be the default Bootstrap look of the alert created with this following code:
<div class="alert" role="alert">Warning! I'm missing something.</div>
Alert messages are used to provide feedback message that usually require the attention of the user. Here it is important to note that Bootstrap Alerts don’t have default class. If a contextual class such as .alert-success, .alert-info, .alert-warning, or .alert-danger, is not provided, a default gray alert will be created.
What will be the output of the following HTML code:
<ul class="list-unstyled">
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<ul>
<li>Nested item 2.1</li>
<li>Nested item 2.2</li>
<li>Nested item 2.3</li>
</ul>
<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>
Explain your answer.
If we apply .list-unstyled to a list, it will remove the default list-style and left margin on the list items. But only for the immediate children. Main list items will be without any style, and nested list items will still have default unordered nested list-style.
Bootstrap sets the global default font-size to 14px, with a line-height of 1.428. The default font is changed to Helvetica and Arial with sans serif fallback. All these styles are applied to the <body> and all paragraphs, with the addition that <p> (paragraphs) receive a bottom margin of half their computed line-height, which is 10px by default.
Consider the following HTML code snippet:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3">.col-xs-12 .col-md-3</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3">.col-xs-12 .col-md-3</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3">.col-xs-12 .col-md-3</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3">.col-xs-12 .col-md-3</div>
</div>
What will be the output of the following HTML code on mobile and on desktop view? Explain your answer.
.col-xs-* class defines the number of grids for extra small devices, and .col-md-* defines the number of grids for desktop devices and above. This example will render on the desktop with four columns, and on mobile the columns will have full width and will be stacked on each other.
The Bootstrap grid system provides four tiers of classes: xs for phones (<768px), sm for tablets (≥768px), md for desktops (≥992px), and lg for large desktops (≥1200px). The hidden trick in this question is that there are only three media queries. Bootstrap is mobile first by design, so the default styles are for small devices, and media queries are then added on for larger screens, as follow in LESS code:
/* Extra small devices (phones, less than 768px) */
/* No media query since this is the default in Bootstrap */
/* Small devices (tablets, 768px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-sm-min) { ... }
/* Medium devices (desktops, 992px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-md-min) { ... }
/* Large devices (large desktops, 1200px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-lg-min) { ... }
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