Congratulations! You’ve made it to the bottom of the webpage: the footer!
Footers display copyright information, social media links, and sometimes, site navigation.
Below is one possible implementation for a footer section using Bootstrap:
First, a footer element with Bootstrap’s container class is used:
Inside the footer, a div with Bootstrap’s row class is added to hold footer content:
Finally, the row is divided into parts using Bootstrap’s grid. Here is one suggestion:
Above, the row is broken into three parts: a p element that takes up four columns, a ul which takes up 8 columns, and li items which take up 1 column each. The lis could hold navigation menu items or social media icons.
Again, because the col-sm-... class is used, this layout will appear on tablet-width screens and wider. Screen sizes smaller than tablet-width (768 pixels), will not maintain this layout.
Now let’s write the code for your own footer!
Instructions
Let’s create a footer. Below the supporting content’s closing </section> tag, create a footer element with the Bootstrap class container:
Run your code to continue.
Beneath the opening <footer class="container"> tag, create a div with the Bootstrap class row:
Don’t forget your closing </div> tag! Run your code to continue.
Next divide the row using Bootstrap’s grid.
Create a p element with the class col-sm-4 and <ul> element with the class col-sm-8:
Run your code to continue.
Between the <p class="col-sm-4"> and closing </p> add the website copyright:
© is a character code, which web browsers interpret as the copyright symbol: ©.
Run your code to view the copyright in the web browser.
Between <ul class="col-sm-8"> and </ul>, create four li items. Each will have the class col-sm-1.
Run your code to continue.
Finally, inside each <li class="col-sm-1">, add an img element
that links to a social media icon.
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Run your code and view the results in the web browser.