How to upgrade Bootstrap 4 alpha.6 to Bootstrap 4 beta

Łukasz Holeczek
2 min readAug 12, 2017

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How to upgrade Bootstrap 4 alpha.6 to Bootstrap 4 beta

After two years in the making, Bootstrap creators finally released first beta of Bootstrap 4. In latest version of Bootstrap 4 more then 650 files was changed, 67k lines was added, and 82k lines was deleted.

Following CSS classes was changed in latest version of Bootstrap 4

  • .badge-default to .badge-dark
  • .bg-faded to .bg-light
  • .bg-inverse to .bg-dark
  • .card-block to .card-body
  • .card-outline-primary to .border-primary
  • .card-outline-secondary to .border-secondary
  • .card-outline-success to .border-success
  • .card-outline-info to .border-info
  • .card-outline-warning to .border-warning
  • .card-primary to .bg-primary
  • .card-success to .bg-success
  • .card-info to .bg-info
  • .card-warning to .bg-warning
  • .card-danger to .bg-danger
  • .hidden-xs-down to .d-none .d-sm-block
  • .hidden-sm-down to .d-none .d-md-block
  • .hidden-md-down to .d-none .d-lg-block
  • .hidden-lg-down to .d-none .d-xl-block
  • .hidden-xs-up to .d-none
  • .hidden-sm-up to .d-sm-none
  • .hidden-md-up to .d-md-none
  • .hidden-lg-up to .d-lg-none
  • .hidden-xl-up to .d-xl-none
  • .navbar-toggleable-sm to .navbar-expand-sm
  • .navbar-toggleable-md to .navbar-expand-md
  • .navbar-toggleable-lg to .navbar-expand-lg
  • .navbar-toggleable-xl to .navbar-expand-xl

Improved auto-placement of tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns

Bootstrap 4 no longer uses Tether.js. This library was replaced by library called Popper.js

About Me

My name is Lukasz Holeczek. I’m creator of GenesisUI and CoreUI. You can connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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