How to get just the responsive grid from Bootstrap 3?
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I need to add responsive design features to my web application using Twitter Bootstrap. I just want the responsive behavior, I'm not interested in the typography, components or any other stuff included in Bootstrap.
I got a customized Bootstrap version just selecting the grid system. However, when I add the generated CSS to my application, all my styles are messed up (header, links and others). Why is that happening? How can I get a Bootstrap CSS with just the grid system? I would like to avoid a manual modification of the Bootstrap files.
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
Go to http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ and toggle just what you want from the BS3 framework and then click "Compile and Download" and you'll get the CSS and JS that you chose.
Open up the CSS and remove all but the grid. They include some normalize stuff too. And you'll need to adjust all the styles on your site to box-sizing: border-box - http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_box-sizing.asp
Solution 2 - Html
Checkout zirafa/bootstrap-grid-only. It contains only the bootstrap grid and responsive utilities that you need (no reset or anything), and simplifies the complexity of working directly with the LESS files.
Solution 3 - Html
Just choose Grid system
and "responsive utilities"
it gives you this: http://jsfiddle.net/7LVzs/
Solution 4 - Html
Made a Grunt build with the Bootstrap 3.3.5 grid only:
https://github.com/horgen/grunt-builds/tree/master/bootstrap-grid
~10KB minimized.
If you need some other parts from Bootstrap just include them in /src/less/bootstrap.less.
Solution 5 - Html
I would suggest using MDO's http://getpreboot.com/ instead. As of v2, preboot
back ports the LESS mixins/variables used to create the Bootstrap 3.0 Grid System and is much more light weight than using the CSS generator. In fact, if you only include preboot.less
there is NO overhead because the entire file is made up of mixins/variables and therefore are only used in pre-compilation and not the final output.
Solution 6 - Html
It looks like you can download just the grid now on Bootstrap 4s new download features.
Solution 7 - Html
It's been a while since this question was asked, but maybe now you can forego Bootstrap altogether and use CSS Grid! (it's simpler, neater, more flexible and faster). See this cool article: Stop using Bootstrap — create a practical CSS Grid template for your component based UI
Solution 8 - Html
In Bootstrap 4, there are already separated files in their GitHub. You can find them here
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/main/dist/css