Optimizing Shopping Experiences with Bootstrap CSS classes

Attention: Shopware from version 6.5 uses Bootstrap 5, this article is then outdated and will be revised soon.

The Shopware 6 Storefront is based on the Bootstrap framework. Due to our HC Architecture®, ThemeWare® is also completely compatible with Bootstrap.

Note: This article is intended for professionals and experts. If you are not absolutely sure, we will be happy to support you: ThemeWare® Services at a glance

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Bootstrap CSS classes

In this tutorial you will find an overview of the most important Bootstrap CSS classes, you can use in your Shopping Experiences.

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You can easily add the following CSS Classes via the section or block settings.

Of course, you can also use the Shopware 6 HTML editor (e.g. in a CMS element) to integrate your own HTML code. Please note that the editor will automatically clean up your code – for security reasons – and not all HTML tags and CSS classes will work.

Note: dditionally we recommend our Bootstrap examples in our demo shops.

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Text

For aligning texts Bootstrap provides CSS Classes you can use.

<p class="text-left">Left aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-center">Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-right">Right aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>

<p class="text-sm-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized SM (small) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-md-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized MD (medium) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-lg-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized LG (large) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-xl-left">Left aligned text on viewports sized XL (extra-large) or wider.</p>

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Text color

For coloring texts, Bootstrap already provides some classes for different colors. The following you will find examples of the available color variants.

<p class="text-primary">.text-primary</p>
<p class="text-secondary">.text-secondary</p>
<p class="text-success">.text-success</p>
<p class="text-danger">.text-danger</p>
<p class="text-warning">.text-warning</p>
<p class="text-info">.text-info</p>
<p class="text-light bg-dark">.text-light</p>
<p class="text-dark">.text-dark</p>
<p class="text-muted">.text-muted</p>
<p class="text-white bg-dark">.text-white</p>

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Background Colour

The Bootstrap framework also provides you with classes for coloring backgrounds of Shopping Experience elements in different colors. For dark backgrounds it is recommended to choose a light text color (see above).

<div class="bg-primary text-white">.bg-primary</div>
<div class="bg-secondary text-white">.bg-secondary</div>
<div class="bg-success text-white">.bg-success</div>
<div class="bg-danger text-white">.bg-danger</div>
<div class="bg-warning text-dark">.bg-warning</div>
<div class="bg-info text-white">.bg-info</div>
<div class="bg-light text-dark">.bg-light</div>
<div class="bg-dark text-white">.bg-dark</div>
<div class="bg-white text-dark">.bg-white</div>

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Border

Bootstrap Classes can also be used to define the borders of Shopping Experience elements. The class "border-0" removes borders from elements, for example.

<span class="border"></span>
<span class="border-top"></span>
<span class="border-right"></span>
<span class="border-bottom"></span>
<span class="border-left"></span>
<span class="border-0"></span>

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Spacings

With the following Bootstrap Classes, spacings can be defined for Shopping Experience elements. There are also spacing classes for different viewports.

The classes are named according to the format {property}{page}-{size} for xs and {property}{page}-{breakpoint}-{size} for sm, md, lg and xl.

Property:

• m - margin (outer spacing)

• p - padding (Inner spacing)

Sides:

• t - top

• b - bottom

• l - left

• r - right

• x - both *-left and*-right

• y - both *-top and*-bottom

• without - all 4 sides

Breakpoint:

• sm - ab 576px

• md - ab 768px

• lg - ab 992px

• xl - ab 1200px

• ohne - ab 0px

Size: ($spacer = 1rem)

• 0 - Setting spacing to 0

• 1 - setting spacing to $spacer * .25

• 2 - setting spacing to $spacer * .5

• 3 - setting spacing to $spacer

• 4 - setting spacing to $spacer * 1,5

• 5 - setting spacing to $spacer * 3

• auto - setting spacing to 'auto'

Note: ThemeWare® also offers an extensive collection of pixel-based spacing classes.

Please find more information in the article:ThemeWare® CSS classes for Shopping Experiences

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Additional links

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