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Quick start #
Get started by including Bootstrap’s production-ready CSS and JavaScript via CDN without the need for
any build steps. See it in practice with this Bootstrap CodePen demo.
1. Create a new index.html file in your project root. Include the <meta name="viewport"> tag as well
for proper responsive behavior in mobile devices.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Bootstrap demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
</body>
</html>
2. Include Bootstrap’s CSS and JS. Place the <link> tag in the <head> for our CSS, and the <script>
tag for our JavaScript bundle (including Popper for positioning dropdowns, poppers, and tooltips)
before the closing </body>. Learn more about our CDN links.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Bootstrap demo</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel=
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
</body>
</html>
You can also include Popper and our JS separately. If you don’t plan to use dropdowns, popovers, or
tooltips, save some kilobytes by not including Popper.
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@popperjs/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integ

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity
3. Hello, world! Open the page in your browser of choice to see your Bootstrapped page. Now you
can start building with Bootstrap by creating your own layout, adding dozens of components, and
utilizing our official examples.
CDN links
As reference, here are our primary CDN links.
Description URL
CSS https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css
JS https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
You can also use the CDN to fetch any of our additional builds listed in the Contents page.
Next steps
Read a bit more about some important global environment settings that Bootstrap utilizes.
Read about what’s included in Bootstrap in our contents section and the list of components that
require JavaScript below.
Need a little more power? Consider building with Bootstrap by including the source files via package
manager.
Looking to use Bootstrap as a module with <script type="module">? Please refer to our using
Bootstrap as a module section.
JS components
Curious which components explicitly require our JavaScript and Popper? If you’re at all unsure about the
general page structure, keep reading for an example page template.
Alerts for dismissing

Buttons for toggling states and checkbox/radio functionality
Carousel for all slide behaviors, controls, and indicators
Collapse for toggling visibility of content
Dropdowns for displaying and positioning (also requires Popper)
Modals for displaying, positioning, and scroll behavior
Navbar for extending our Collapse and Offcanvas plugins to implement responsive behaviors
Navs with the Tab plugin for toggling content panes
Offcanvases for displaying, positioning, and scroll behavior
Scrollspy for scroll behavior and navigation updates
Toasts for displaying and dismissing
Tooltips and popovers for displaying and positioning (also requires Popper)
Important globals
Bootstrap employs a handful of important global styles and settings, all of which are almost exclusively
geared towards the normalization of cross browser styles. Let’s dive in.
HTML5 doctype
Bootstrap requires the use of the HTML5 doctype. Without it, you’ll see some funky and incomplete
styling.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
...
</html>
Viewport meta
Bootstrap is developed mobile first, a strategy in which we optimize code for mobile devices first and
then scale up components as necessary using CSS media queries. To ensure proper rendering and touch
zooming for all devices, add the responsive viewport meta tag to your <head>.
You can see an example of this in action in the quick start.
Box-sizing
For more straightforward sizing in CSS, we switch the global box-sizing value from content-box to
border-box. This ensures padding does not affect the final computed width of an element, but it can cause
problems with some third-party software like Google Maps and Google Custom Search Engine.
On the rare occasion you need to override it, use something like the following:
.selector-for-some-widget {
box-sizing: content-box;
}
With the above snippet, nested elements—including generated content via ::before and ::after—will
all inherit the specified box-sizing for that .selector-for-some-widget.
Learn more about box model and sizing at CSS Tricks.
Reboot
For improved cross-browser rendering, we use Reboot to correct inconsistencies across browsers and
devices while providing slightly more opinionated resets to common HTML elements.
Community
Stay up-to-date on the development of Bootstrap and reach out to the community with these helpful
resources.
Read and subscribe to The Official Bootstrap Blog.

Ask questions and explore our GitHub Discussions.
Discuss, ask questions, and more on the community Discord or Bootstrap subreddit.
Chat with fellow Bootstrappers in IRC. On the irc.libera.chat server, in the #bootstrap channel.
Implementation help may be found at Stack Overflow (tagged bootstrap-5).
Developers should use the keyword bootstrap on packages that modify or add to the functionality
of Bootstrap when distributing through npm or similar delivery mechanisms for maximum
discoverability.
You can also follow @getbootstrap on Twitter for the latest gossip and awesome music videos.
Bootstrap
Designed and built with all the love in the world by the Bootstrap team with the help
of our contributors.
Code licensed MIT, docs CC BY 3.0.
Currently v5.3.3.
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Get started with Bootstrap

Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams. Put

ads via Carbon

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@popperjs/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integ

Alerts for dismissing

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

You can see an example of this in action in the quick start.

Learn more about box model and sizing at CSS Tricks.

Read and subscribe to The Official Bootstrap Blog.

Code licensed MIT, docs CC BY 3.0.

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