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CSS Bootstrap Basics Getting to Know Bootstrap Getting to Know Bootstrap Review

Posted by Paige Jones
Paige Jones
20,144 Points

Silly Bootstrap Question. . .

When doing the bootstrap basics course the instructor chooses colors from about 6 options for example: bg-success. This might be a dumb question but is bootstrap limited to these few color choices? or can I create buttons, forms etc with my own hex or RGB colors? If so can someone show me an example of how that would be formatted? thanks!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Bootstrap defines several purpose classes, which have associated color ranges and are provided with several prefixes:

  • default (usually transparent)
  • primary (dark blue)
  • success (green)
  • info (light blue)
  • warning (yellow-orange)
  • danger (reddish)

You can use custom CSS to give things other colors; but consider carefully before doing this to a control, because one of the benefits of using Bootstrap at all is to give the user a familiar interface.

For more information (and a few other color classes) see the Bootstrap documentation.