Bootstrap 4 Container

May 21st, 2020

Prerana Kasar

Bootstrap 4 Container

Bootstrap 4 provides a class container which is used in the div tag to give a pleasant look to the page. And this container class provide a responsive layout.

Bootstrap 4 provide 2 type of container class

.container
.container-fluid

Container Class

The .container class is used to create a fixed-width centered container.

Example 1 – .container class .

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Bootstrap Container Example</title>
    <!-- link the bootstrap online or through CDN -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  	<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.16.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  	<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
	<div class="container" style="background-color: lightgrey;">
		<h1>Well Come to Elex Tutorial</h1>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

On the above code the we apply the class .container to the div tag and also apply background-color property to this to show that container width.

Bootstrap 4 Container — Fig.1 – Bootstrap Container Example.

Fluid Container Class

The .container-fluid class is used to create a full-width container, means that always acquire the 100% width.

Example 2 Fluid Container class .

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Bootstrap Fluid Container Example</title>
    <!-- link the bootstrap online or through CDN -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  	<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.16.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  	<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
	<div class="container-fluid" style="background-color: lightgrey;">
		<h1>Well Come to Elex Tutorial</h1>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

On the above code the class .container-fluid is applied to div tag and the below image shows how the .container-fluid class acquire the width of the browser.