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I want 20% in first column, but when I used col-md-2, it set width: 16.6667% how I set column 20% using bootstrap. Do I need to make my own CSS or there is a way to customise bootstraps3

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• How many columns do you want? – Kudos Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 9:41
• 2 Possible duplicate of How to Customize Bootstrap Column Widths? – James Donnelly Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 9:52
• one columns is 10% and second column 20% – Naveed Iqbal Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 9:52
• @JamesDonnelly so I need to customize in bootstrap – Naveed Iqbal Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 9:54
• You can customize the boostrap CSS or you can just write your own CSS for what you need. – Raul A. Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 10:16

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Bootstrap grid system is based in 12 columns. Here there is the Bootstrap official doc http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid

col-md-2 means that you want to assign 2/12 of the total width of your container, therefore 16.6667%

If you'd like to assign 20% you can add a class near to col-md-2 and than override the width, or set an in-line style. Please note that if you set 20% is not a multiple of 12 so the near columns would never stretch 100% of width just using bootstrap.

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You have to use custom classes (easy way), or customize Bootstrap grid system.

For creating custom class you could use something like:

.col-10p { width: 100%; } .col-20p { width: 100%; } @media screen and (min-width: 768px) { .col-10p { width: 10%; float: left; } .col-20p { width: 20%; float: left; } }

Then you will get 10% and 20% width containers respectively, and will be responsive like col-md-*s. These can be used just like col-*-* classes.

If you customize Bootstrap or overwrite default grid classes it'll effect the whole project and will make unintended results.

Like this you can overwrite classes:

.col-md-2 { width: 10% !important; }

Since using !important is not a good way to do things: you could use another approach like:

.width-10.col-md-2 { width: 10%; }

which will give you desired effect. Just use the width-10 class in HTML too.

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