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web design front-end framework

Key facts

Original authors
Mark Otto, Jacob Thornton
Developer
Bootstrap Core Team
Initial release
August 19, 2011 ; 14 years ago ( 2011-08-19 )
Stable release
5.3.8 / 25 August 2025 ; 9 months ago ( 25 August 2025 )
Written in
HTML , CSS , Less (v3), Sass (v4) and JavaScript
Platform
Web platform
License
MIT License ( Apache License 2.0 prior to 3.1.0)
Website
getbootstrap .com
Repository
github .com /twbs /bootstrap

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Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development. Our default branch is for development of our Bootstrap 5 release. Head to the v4-dev branch to view the readme, documentation, and source code for Bootstrap 4. Read the Getting started page for information on the framework contents, templates, examples, and more. Within the download you’ll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. Bootstrap’s documentation, included in this repo in the root directory, is built with Astro and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages at . The docs may also be run locally. Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development. Moreover, if your pull request contains JavaScript patches or features, you must include relevant unit tests. All HTML and CSS should conform to the Code Guide, maintained by Mark Otto. Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at . For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Bootstrap is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. Sometimes we screw up, but we adhere to those rules whenever possible. See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of Bootstrap. Release announcement posts on the official Bootstrap blog contain summaries of the most noteworthy changes made in each release.

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Wikidata facts

Official website
getbootstrap.com
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software version identifier
5.3.8
Commons category
Bootstrap (framework)
social media followers
557628
source code repository URL
github.com/twbs/bootstrap
inception
2011-08-19
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Bootstrap (formerly Twitter Bootstrap) is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains HTML, CSS and (optionally) JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components.

As of May 2023, Bootstrap is the 17th most starred project (4th most starred library) on GitHub, with over 164,000 stars. According to W3Techs, Bootstrap is used by 19.2% of all websites.

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