Popular Components of Bootstrap and their Uses

Bootstrap is a popular library that we use with HTML and CSS. It helps us to add beauty in the layout. There are many components in it that we use to speed up our work. Components can be reused for variety of purposes. Drop-down, forms, buttons and navigation bars are some of the important components in Bootstrap. Those who are pursuing web development course in Delhi must know about these components. In this blog, let’s talk about some of the important one. 

1. Accordion  We can include content in a foldable page like book to show the extra content on web-page. It is very much popular these days. Users can access the hidden text simply by clicking or tapping the arrows or + icons.

2. Alert We can show alters on webpage to users using this.

2. Badges Badges are like notifications, updates, or requests to show in the navigation. We can place them anywhere usually but mainly they appear in top navigation.

3. Buttons Buttons play and important role in the user interface. These are the important parts of every website or application to which users interact with. Bootstrap provides variety of buttons with many styles like primary, danger, info, dark, success, etc.

4. Cards Bootstrap gives cards in which we can show related content together. Usually we have images, headings and paragraphs included in it. Sometimes we have buttons too.

5. Close button For dismissing any modal or alert message, we add close button to it. It is super easy to create it in Bootstrap.

6. Collapse They are similar to accordion to show and hide content. It helps users to toggle content and check it without leaving the current page.

7. Drop-downs We all are aware of menu, and drop-downs are a crucial part of it. These components help in presenting the links to users without cluttering the interface.

8. Pagination We can add pagination component in Bootstrap to split the content into different pages. We use it with articles, courses, blogs, or events pages.

9. Offcanvas We can use Offcanvas component to show the hidden sidebar or menu on left or right side of the web page or application.

10. List We can present our content in the list form to show sequence of linked items with edit, delete or save icons. 

11. Navbar It includes important links of internal pages as well as search option. You can’t imagine any website without adding navbar. Bootstrap has components like navbar to create a strong and adaptable navbar. 

11. Toasts You can use toasts to show small alerts for showing the quick messages about the current status on what's happening in an app. 

12. Spinners Bootstrap uses spinners to show users that something is still going on. For eg. downloading data, loading any file or page.

 
14. Pop-overs Pop-overs are like small overlay components of Bootstrap in which the users can get the details related to particular section on hover or even on click.

  15. Tooltips Last, we have tooltip as overlay components in Bootstrap. They provide some extra information about any element on hovers.  

So, we have seen the list of some of the most important components in Bootstrap. Learning about these is crucial a lot to become a good website designer.