Introduction

Get started with Borrow, Responsive Website Template for building responsive, mobile-first sites, with Bootstrap and a template starter page.

Quick start

CSS

Copy-paste the Bootstrap and then Borrow stylesheets into your before all other stylesheets to load our CSS.

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="../assets/css/theme.min.css">

JS

Many of our components require the use of JavaScript to function. Specifically, they require jQuery, Popper.js, and our own JavaScript plugins. Place the following script near the end of your docs, right before the closing body tag, to enable them. jQuery must come first, then popper.js, and then our JavaScript plugins.

   <script src="../assets/libs/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
   <script src="../assets/libs/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
   <script src="../assets/js/theme.min.js"></script>

Starter template

Be sure to have your docs set up with the latest design and development standards. That means using an HTML5 doctype and including a viewport meta tag for proper responsive behaviors. Put it all together and your docs should look like this:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../assets/css/theme.min.css">
    <title>Hello, world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
    <!-- Optional JavaScript -->
    <!-- jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS -->
      <script src="../assets/libs/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
   <script src="../assets/libs/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
   <script src="../assets/js/theme.min.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

That’s all you need for overall page requirements. Visit the Layout docs or our official examples to start laying out your site’s content and components.

Important globals

Borrow employs a handful of important global styles and settings that you’ll need to be aware of when using it, all of which are almost exclusively geared towards the normalization of cross browser styles. Let’s dive in.

HTML5 doctype

Borrow requires the use of the HTML5 doctype. Without it, you'll see some funky incomplete styling, but including it shouldn't cause any considerable hiccups.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  ...
</html>

Responsive meta tag

Borrow is developed mobile first, a strategy in which we optimize code for mobile devices first and then scale up components as necessary using CSS media queries. To ensure proper rendering and touch zooming for all devices, add the responsive viewport meta tag to your.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

You can see an example of this in action in the starter template.