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title: Start using Bootstrap
group: getting-started
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Quickly add Bootstrap to your project via the Bootstrap CDN, graciously provided by the MaxCDN folks.
## Include CSS and JS
Copy-paste the stylesheet `` into your `` before all other stylesheets.
Heads up! Much of this page will be inaccurate during the v4 alpha releases.
{% highlight html %}
{% endhighlight %}
Then, add the Bootstrap JavaScript—and jQuery—near the end of your pages. It's best placed right before the closing `` tag. Be sure to place jQuery first as our code depends on it.
{% highlight html %}
{% endhighlight %}
## Page template
Be sure to have your pages set up with the latest design and development standards. That means:
* Using an HTML5 doctype
* Forcing Internet Explorer to use its latest rendering mode ([read more]())
* And, utilizing the viewport meta tag.
Put it all together and your pages should look like this:
{% highlight html %}
Hello, world!
{% endhighlight %}
And that's it. Happy Bootstrapping!