Developing Responsive Websites with Bootstrap and jQuery Glossary
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Term Description
A common technique in Websites that offers list of
Auto Completion suggestions for selecting the exact value instead of
typing it.
A set of functions, routines, and procedures that are
Application
used to create software applications. Web developers can
Programming
utilize all Bootstrap plugins via the mark-up Application
Interface (API)
Programming Interface.
Term Description
Special labels indicating new items, which are similar to
number of unread e-mails near the Inbox tab in an e-mail
Badges
account. They show numerical values that indicate the number
of items related to a link.
Term Description
A collapsible is useful for showing or hiding a huge amount of
Collapsible
content.
It accesses and selects all selected radio buttons and check
Checked boxes. To access these input controls, a Web developer needs
Selector to include checked inside double quotes, which should be within
the parentheses following the $ character.
Also known as Compact tables in Bootstrap. It is a table more
Condensed
condensed by reducing cell padding by half which reduces
Table
space.
A language that describes the style of HTML document. These
Cascading Style
are used for applying styles to the elements of a Webpage by
Sheets (CSS)
creating as well as assigning classes to these elements.
Content A system of distributed servers, which delivers Webpages to a
Delivery user as per the geographic location of the server and the user.
Network (CDN)
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Document A programming API for HTML and XML documents. It contains
Object Model logical structure of documents and how documents are accessed
(DOM) and manipulated.
An intuitive jQuery plugin that adds more functionality to the
Datatable <table> element. It makes a plain HTML table dynamic by easily
including the pagination, sorting, and searching utilities in it.
Term Description
It access elements as per their name. To find an element by its
Element
name, a Web developer needs to specify the element selector
Selector
within the parentheses following the $ character.
An event handler, which is associated with the event, is usually a
Event Handler
custom function that conveys what to do for handling the event.
A few contextual classes for emphasizing a cell or a complete
Emphasis
row. They indicate success, warning, info, or danger by changing
Rows
the color of the background of a row or a cell.
Term Description
It handles sizing of a page element in relative units such as
Fluid Grid
percentages, instead of absolute units such as points or pixels.
Term Description
Also known as glyphs or icon fonts in bootstrap. It uses the
Glyphicons Unicode font reference in Glyphicons Halflings for rendering the
icon on a Webpage.
A collection of HTML/CSS components that enables a Web
Grid developer to structure a Website and insert its contents easily in
the intended locations.
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Hypertext
Markup A standard markup language that is used to create Webpages and
Language Web applications. HTML elements are building blocks of HTML
(HTML) pages.
Term Description
A lightweight format for exchanging and storing data. It is an
JSON easier alternative to Extensible Markup Language (XML) in
terms of usage.
Stands for jQuery User Interface. It is a robust open-source JS
library based on jQuery framework. It offers a collection of
jQuery UI
jQuery plugins for easily adding new and complex functionalities
to the library of jQuery.
A flexible and lightweight component that can extend over the
Jumbotron
whole viewport to highlight key informative content on a site.
Term Description
It defines a style rule for displaying a Webpage on a specific type
Media Query
of device (media) without changing the markups.
A graphical user interface element that appears as a dialog box.
Modal Window
It displays emergency states to command user awareness.
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A navigation bar is a responsive navigation header visible on the
Navbars
top of a Webpage.
Term Description
A panel refers to a container that can hold other components
Panels
such as lists and tables with proper padding.
A progress bar shows the status of an action or a process in
Progress Bar
progress, such as downloading and uploading a file.
A component that adds a header to a page. It separates it from
Page Header the rest of the content by inserting a horizontal line under the
heading.
A piece of software that enriches another software application
Plugins and it runs independently. Bootstrap offers custom events to
handle most distinct actions of plugins.
Term Description
It refers to a design process for providing ease of access and
Responsive
smooth viewing experience to the users regardless of the device
Layout
in use.
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jQuery selectors refers to a function in the form of an
expression for searching the matching element in the DOM. It
Selectors
allows selecting single or multiple HTML elements for triggering
different actions on the selected ones.
Also known as Horizontal grid. It loads as a stack on small
Stacked Grid devices such as mobile phones prior to being horizontal on
medium or large devices.
Striped Row A table with alternate rows having a background color differing
Table from its previous one.
Term Description
It comes with fresh themes and facilitates customization. It allows
Tooltip to display other content instead of just the title attribute, such as
Widget AJAX-retrieved data and footnotes. It is useful for indicating
warning or error.
An HTML table displays data in a grid layout that consists of rows
Tables
and columns.
Term Description
Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is a Web address of a
URL resource on a server which specifies the location on a computer
network.
Term Description
A widget refers to an object associated with an element on a
Widget Webpage for handling many aspects with other JS objects or
widgets.
A well is a container component to apply an inset style to a
Well
block-level element or sunken effect to its content.
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