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Pieter van der Westhuizen
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Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Data attributes versus the programmatic API


Bootstrap offers the ability to use its plugins entirely through HTML markup. This means that in order to use most of the plugins, you do not need to write a single line of JavaScript. Using data attributes is the recommended approach and should be your first option when using Bootstrap plugins.

For example, to allow an alert element to be dismissible, you'll add the data-dismiss="alert" attribute to either a button or anchor element, as illustrated in the following code:

<div class="alert alert-danger"> 
    <button data-dismiss="alert" class="close" type="button">×</button> 
    <strong>Warning</strong> Shuttle launch in t-minus 10 seconds. 
</div> 

You also have the option to perform the same action using the programmatic API via JavaScript. The following code uses jQuery to close a specific alert element when the user clicks on a button:

<button class="close" type="button" onclick="$(...
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Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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