Using htmx with Bootstrap is mostly a seamless experience, but I’ve encountered a few places where a bit of extra effort is needed to smooth everything out. Since I could not find a concise description of the required fix, I’ve created this quick post to outline the issue and the remedy.

Bootstrap

Since I work mostly on business-to-business administrative web applications, I need to build many interfaces, yet a slick or custom styling is usually not the highest priority. We need a well rounded set of standard component that enables data presentation with clarity. So let’s just pretend we still live in the ’10s and use Bootstrap. A benefit is that all the scraping-trained AI’s are now all Bootstrap experts, meaning that stamping out entire dashboards is trivial.