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Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
Courses Plus Student 27,150 Points

Bootstrap 3 Compile and Download is giving me a link to a GitHub Page and not downloading a file?

Hi everyone,

I tried a custom download of bootstrap and when I went to download it gave me raw file on github rather than a download with all the js and css file ? any ideas on where im going wrong ?

Also I really want to get to grips with bootstrap and cant find any good documentation to read over ?

@guil do you have any good advice for getting to grips with bootstrap as I would like to become confident enough to build my personal site using it with the opportunity to migrate it onto wordpress at a later stage ? I have watched the videos in the frameworks basics on bootstrap but am still a little lost ......

Craig

ptrkcsk
ptrkcsk
23,084 Points

When you create a customized version of Bootstrap you are given a link to a GitHub gist of your config.json file, which you can upload to the customizer page to recreate the same custom version of Bootstrap to be downloaded again.

Perhaps you were using Firefox and the download did not work? There is a warning next to the 'Compile and Download' button:

Warning for Firefox users!

Due to a possible browser bug, the customizer download randomly fails in Firefox. If this happens to you, we advise either retrying in Firefox or using one of the other browsers supported by the Customizer (Chrome or IE10+).