Use .container-fluid for a full width container, spanning the entire width of the viewport.
Responsive breakpoints
Since Bootstrap is developed to be mobile first, we use a handful of media queries to create sensible breakpoints for our layouts and interfaces. These breakpoints are mostly based on minimum viewport widths and allow us to scale up elements as the viewport changes.
Bootstrap primarily uses the following media query ranges—or breakpoints—in our source Sass files for our layout, grid system, and components.
Since we write our source CSS in Sass, all our media queries are available via Sass mixins:
We occasionally use media queries that go in the other direction (the given screen size or smaller):
Note that since browsers do not currently support range context queries, we work around the limitations of min- and max- prefixes and viewports with fractional widths (which can occur under certain conditions on high-dpi devices, for instance) by using values with higher precision for these comparisons.
Once again, these media queries are also available via Sass mixins:
There are also media queries and mixins for targeting a single segment of screen sizes using the minimum and maximum breakpoint widths.
These media queries are also available via Sass mixins:
Similarly, media queries may span multiple breakpoint widths:
The Sass mixin for targeting the same screen size range would be:
Z-index
Several Bootstrap components utilize z-index, the CSS property that helps control layout by providing a third axis to arrange content. We utilize a default z-index scale in Bootstrap that’s been designed to properly layer navigation, tooltips and popovers, modals, and more.
These higher values start at an arbitrary number, high and specific enough to ideally avoid conflicts. We need a standard set of these across our layered components—tooltips, popovers, navbars, dropdowns, modals—so we can be reasonably consistent in the behaviors. There’s no reason we couldn’t have used 100+ or 500+.
We don’t encourage customization of these individual values; should you change one, you likely need to change them all.