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Published inAug 2016
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ISBN-139781785881008
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Matt Lambert
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Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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Customizing headings


You may want to add some additional context to your headers and you can easily do this with some included Bootstrap 4 utility classes. By using a contextual text class, you can tag on a description to a heading like this:

<h3> 
  This is the main title 
  <small class="text-muted">this is a description</small> 
</h3> 

As you can see, I've added a class of text-muted to a <small> tag that is nested within my header tag. This will style the descriptive part of the text a bit differently, which creates a nice looking effect:

Using the lead class

Another utility text class that has been added to Bootstrap 4 is the lead class. This class is used if you want to make a paragraph of text stand out. It will increase the font size by 25% and set the font-weight of the text to light or 300. It's easy to add, as the following code shows:

<p class="lead"> 
here's some text with the .lead class to make this paragraph look...
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Matt Lambert

Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
Read more about Matt Lambert