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Ilja Daderko
Ilja Daderko
8,953 Points
Posted by Ilja Daderko
Ilja Daderko
8,953 Points

Best practices to customise Bootstrap 3 (Vanilla CSS)

Hello,

I went through various website themes built with Bootstrap 3 today, all of them looking neat, different and creative. Authors did outstanding jobs in customising bootstrap's default styles and adding their own and at the same time maintained clean code.

I wanted to ask if there are some general good practices, guidelines, advice etc.. on how to customise bootstrap, mainly css to sort of build your own style pack. And maintain clean code at the same time, also maybe get rid of unused code as well at the end of the project.

Thanks

2 Answers

Dean jenkins
Dean jenkins
5,230 Points
Dean jenkins
Dean jenkins
5,230 Points

Hi Llja make a different ccs file call e.g base and ref it under the bootstrap.css file in the html doc and then override the css in the base file.

Hope this helps!