Dear LightDot, Thanks SO MUCH for the CLEAR explanations.
I'll mark this ANSWER as the BEST. However, the explanation, I think, also includes your other post and Ari's post as well. Thanks again to you BOTH and to this GREAT Community. Love and peace, Joe On Friday, May 9, 2014 4:58:22 PM UTC-7, LightDot wrote: > > As far as Bootswatch 2 themes are concerned, the original, stock > bootstrap-responsive.min.css must be loaded if you wish your page to be > "responsive". Bootswatch 2 themes do not provide this functionality. So, > regardless of the Bootswatch 2 theme used, they can all co-exist with the > same, stock bootstrap-responsive.min.css. > > What bootstrap-responsive.min.css does is explained in the old Bootstrap 2 > docs, for example here: > http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/scaffolding.html#responsive and you can > just try how your page looks with or without it. Just to be clear - you > don't have to use the responsive features or even load the > bootstrap-responsive.min.css, it's optional. > > Regards > > On Friday, May 9, 2014 5:24:23 PM UTC+2, JoeCodeswell wrote: >> >> Dear LightDot and Ari, >> >> Thanks for the responses. The situation is getting clearer in my mind. >> >> I have some follow-on questions for LightDot. You said: >> >> Details such as whether you need to replace just bootstrap.min.css (and >>> keep the original bootstrap-responsive.min.css) or replace the >>> bootstrap.min.css and remove bootstrap-responsive.min.css altogether, are >>> going to be stated in the documentation of the theme / project you're >>> switching to. >> >> >> I am sure you know WAY more about the history of Bootstrap and its >> documentation than I do. I went to http://bootswatch.com/2/ and looked >> at the Cerulean Preview, which seems to me to be the "the documentation of >> the theme". I did a firefox page search for "responsive". Result: "Phrase >> not found". >> >> Here are my questions, LightDot. Thanks in advance for educating me. >> >> Does every Bootstrap2 theme have a *correspondingly >> developed*bootstrap-responsive.min.css? I assume the answer to this is NO. >> >> Will every Bootstrap2 theme work with a *separately >> developed*bootstrap-responsive.min.css? >> >> Will the web2py default bootstrap-responsive.min.css "work" with any >> Bootstrap2 theme's bootstrap.min.css? If, YES, generally what will the >> result look like, when the bootstrap-responsive.min.css is in control? >> >> Thanks again, LightDot and Ari. >> >> Love and peace, >> >> Joe >> >> On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:57:54 AM UTC-7, ari northage-orr wrote: >>> >>> LightDot is correct, this is due to the fact that web2py comes with >>>> bootstrap 2. I had the exact same issue as you, I was trying to use a >>>> theme >>>> from Bootswatch and it ended up breaking the navbar and messing up the >>>> placement of things on my page. Googling themes for bootstrap 2 and using >>>> one of those fixed the issue completely. >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
