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Adding bootstrap

To integrate the bootstrap library, you will modify your author/change_list.html, and include the library in the {{block.super}} (line 7).

<link 
   rel="stylesheet" 
   href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"
   integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T"
   crossorigin="anonymous"
   >
<script
   src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" 
   integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" 
   crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" 
   integrity="sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1" 
   crossorigin="anonymous"> </script>
<script 
   src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" 
   integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" 
   crossorigin="anonymous"> </script>

Now, you can use Bootstrap everywhere in your page. For example, you will add a simple danger alert UI banner in your author’s change_list.html page (line 53 of unedited file).

<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
A simple danger alert—check it out!
</div>

It will look something like this when you open the author change view page:

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