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The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

252 mentions on Hacker News by 226 people: 46 stories, 206 comments · first 2011-08-19 · latest 2025-10-25

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  1. …version of this. More details here: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/content/reboot/ Code: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v5.3.8/dist/css/boots...
    comment by maxloh · 2025-10-25 · in Normalize.css
  2. It was added back in 2020 by https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/30561
    comment by Thorrez · 2025-10-07 · in The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
  3. Interestingly Bootstrap has removed "system-ui" in 2017 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/22377/files but it's back in the current one: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/scss/_variables....
    comment by tosh · 2025-10-07 · in The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
  4. So, $ git-down -d bootstrap-dist https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git:master dist is *way* better than $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twbs/boostrap.git $ cd bootstrap $ mv ./dist ~/stuff/boostrap-latest because: "C'mon, you…
    comment by luismedel · 2025-09-10 · in Show HN: Downloading a folder from a repo using rust
  5. …then it's going to be as toothless as declaring any given JavaScript syntax to be "improper": https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecomment-5...
    comment by pwdisswordfishz · 2025-09-07 · in C++26: Erroneous behaviour
  6. ▲ 4
    Bootstrap v6 is on the way, but is anyone waiting for it?
    story by mrholek · 2025-02-25 · 2 comments
  7. …It has never prevented the introduction of new syntaxes to the language (like discussed here: < https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecomment-5... >), nor motivated the addition of awkward grammatical contortions like [no…
    comment by pwdisswordfishz · 2024-12-25 · in Cognitive load is what matters
  8. In the JavaScript world, tread cautiously on this passionate topic. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by mrbluecoat · 2024-04-15 · in The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
  9. …using that much except overriding bootstrap which has its own. You might find bourbon more useful. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/main/scss https://www.bourbon.io
    comment by hk1337 · 2023-10-04 · in Show HN: Atlassian Design for Bootstrap v5
  10. …values might seem strange, but many popular libraries use these offsets (including Bootstrap: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/scss/mixins/_bre... ). The way I tend to work with media queries is not writing them directly but…
    comment by nhardy · 2023-05-29 · in Media Queries and Responsive Design
  11. …frameworks like Bootstrap[1], and most of the teething issues have been solved for a while now. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/adf7b8dc4083b6ddc318e...
    comment by SquareWheel · 2023-04-27 · in Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework
  12. Then your default font stack should look something like this. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/adf7b8dc4083b6ddc318e...
    comment by SquareWheel · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs
  13. …up the idea and run with it, doing a much better job than I could have. Open source is fun! [0] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/33421 [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/33015
    comment by sbuccini · 2022-08-18 · in Bootstrap 5.2 Is Out
  14. …Some examples of wrong answers I am getting today (May 5, 2022): - Bootstrap: if you go to https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap , you will think that Bootstrap's current version is 4.6.1, but if you then go to https://getbootstrap.com , you…
    comment by mzrnsh · 2022-05-05 · in Show HN: A tool that shows the stable version number for frameworks/libraries
  15. …contrast between two colours to ensure good accessibility [1][2]. Bootstrap v5 uses this [3]. [0] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4.6.1/scss/_function... [1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Relative_luminance [2]…
    comment by Cyykratahk · 2022-02-17 · in Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
  16. Bootstrap's .visually-hidden (formerly .sr-only) does something similar using clip(): https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/scss/mixins/_vis...
    comment by mappu · 2021-11-10 · in Business Essentials
  17. …on how clearly the CSS is written). But for 3rd-party styling systems, it can be a nightmare. [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/19943
    comment by danShumway · 2021-03-30 · in Let’s fix font size
  18. …and responsiveness as well as looking modern and being easy to customize. Long time ago I was using https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap for work primarily and https://github.com/foundation/foundation-sites for side projects. Nowadays I use…
    comment by stanislavb · 2021-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your CSS framework of choice?
  19. …ttps://github.com/mrdoob/three.js│JavaScript│130│0│1694│8│64.3│12│606│801│3.1│22919│0.87813 bootstrap│https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap│JavaScript│113│0│1360│7│21.7│9│729│912│2.1│149666│0.8661 material-ui│https://github.com/mui-org/material…
    comment by tmsh · 2020-12-12 · in Finding Critical Open Source Projects
  20. …But congrats on improving performance and code quality nonetheless. Looks to be ES6 class driven: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/js/src/dropdown.... Going for simple JS might make more sense for simple websites with broad…
    comment by dmix · 2020-06-17 · in Bootstrap 5 alpha
  21. Citing mdo, https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-115... : "We haven't seen anyone using submenus in meaningful ways and the code necessary to make them work well is just too much overhead. Submenus just don't have much…
    comment by Eduard · 2020-06-16 · in Bootstrap 5 alpha
  22. …at the same time. † (if you follow these rules I memorized to show off how smart I am). --- [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by DCoder · 2020-05-12 · in ESLint 7.0
  23. …minor and nothing you couldn't fix as you go, but the script changes are breaking changes. [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/30377/files
    comment by Etheryte · 2020-04-07 · in Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support
  24. ▲ 408
    Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support
    story by zaiste · 2020-04-07 · 201 comments
  25. ▲ 1
    Bootstrap is about to drop IE support
    story by elucidater · 2020-03-12 · 0 comments
  26. …omission: “insanely stupid code” (github.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842713 https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057 And don't forget to semicolon-harden your most important mission-critical code:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-02-16 · in Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API
  27. …I want to avoid the headache in the future of a migration, an example of what it can entail: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054 That's a lot of work. Worse is the matter of ambiguity with certain licenses. Having something clear…
    comment by tony · 2020-01-20 · in My FOSS Story
  28. ▲ 38
    Bootstrap v4.4
    story by pierreneter · 2019-11-27 · 11 comments
  29. bootstrap 5 is dropping IE support: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586
    comment by bobthepanda · 2019-09-24 · in Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid
  30. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586 V5 won't.
    comment by camhart · 2019-03-16 · in Ask HN: Is jQuery on its way out?
  31. …javascript doesnt screw up react". For example, look at some of the earliest comments there - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586 > If you are interested in Vanilla JS versions of tooltip, popover, and scrollspy, We have versions…
    comment by sandGorgon · 2019-02-13 · in Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
  32. …friends in the background. All the best to the current maintainers in their pretty hard task! [0] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/19017
    comment by petetnt · 2019-02-12 · in Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
  33. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/5fbfecbb929cccdbb9fbb...
    comment by kevindqc · 2019-02-12 · in Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
  34. ▲ 517
    Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
    story by bdcravens · 2019-02-12 · 315 comments
  35. Reminds me of https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
    comment by jbredeche · 2019-02-11 · in Can You Find the Bug in This Code?
  36. …? Info: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/theming/ File to adjust ( variables): https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4.2.1/scss/_variable...
    comment by NicoJuicy · 2019-01-04 · in Bootstrap builder for busy developers
  37. …ksmode.org/css/user-interface/boxsizing.html https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-ie-box-model https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/12351 https://jgthms.com/minireset.css/ https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize…
    comment by wvenable · 2018-12-18 · in Browsers
  38. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/v4-without-jquery Maybe try to see if this is complete enough to work.
    comment by dqv · 2018-07-12 · in Bootstrap 4.1.2 released
  39. I'm excited for the day this gets merged and can drop jquery: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586
    comment by tshannon · 2018-07-12 · in Bootstrap 4.1.2 released
  40. There's a PR nearing close to jQueryless version: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23586 One of the remaining pieces also has a PR: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/24879 Too bad this didn't land to BS4 though.
    comment by petetnt · 2018-01-18 · in Bootstrap 4
  41. …issue[0] basically says the team is too small to rewrite and remove jQuery as a dependency. [0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/23204
    comment by styfle · 2018-01-18 · in Bootstrap 4
  42. ▲ 6
    Bootstrap 4.0.0 is finally released
    story by Bino · 2018-01-18 · 0 comments
  43. ▲ 1
    Bootstrap 4's Navbar doesn't support nested dropdowns
    story by dhruvbhatia · 2017-10-09 · 0 comments
  44. I don't have problems. In the case of bootstrap, https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/download/v4.0.0-b... works fine for me. Also the status page works fine ( https://status.github.com/messages ).
    comment by jsegura · 2017-10-03 · in Ask HN: Is GitHub's download server down in Europe?
  45. …should interpret HTML so while not impacting many applications it should be fixed in my opinion." https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20184#issuecomment-...
    comment by geekamongus · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta
  46. …optional, Bootstrap is modular [1] [2] [3]. [1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/ [2] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/blob/master/assets/st... [3] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v3-dev/less/bootstrap...
    comment by allover · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta
  47. …a problem as the fact the 3.x is unmaintained and has at least one known security vulnerability. https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20184#issuecomment-...
    comment by geekamongus · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta
  48. Spinners are coming in 4.1: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/22960
    comment by mdo · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta
  49. …Edit: someone has already filled an issue, beating me by 3 minutes: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/23284
    comment by Matheus28 · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta
  50. For anyone wondering, the beta is comprised of 392 Github issues: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/milestone/41?closed=1 with some more interesting tidbits in this issue here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21568 - good to see…
    comment by DigitalSea · 2017-08-11 · in Bootstrap 4 Beta