diff --git a/pandas-docs/source/_themes/bootstrap_docs_theme/static/sphinx-bootstrap.css_t b/pandas-docs/source/_themes/bootstrap_docs_theme/static/sphinx-bootstrap.css_t
index 9167a5ed7..23f144051 100644
--- a/pandas-docs/source/_themes/bootstrap_docs_theme/static/sphinx-bootstrap.css_t
+++ b/pandas-docs/source/_themes/bootstrap_docs_theme/static/sphinx-bootstrap.css_t
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ a.headerlink:hover {
     color: white;
 }
 
-div.admonition p.admonition-title + p, div.deprecated p {
+div.deprecated p {
     display: inline;
 }
 
@@ -62,33 +62,10 @@ div.highlight{
     background-color: white;
 }
 
-div.note {
-    background-color: #eee;
-    border: 1px solid #ccc;
-}
-
-div.seealso {
-    background-color: #ffc;
-    border: 1px solid #ff6;
-}
-
 div.topic {
     background-color: #eee;
 }
 
-div.warning {
-    background-color: #ffe4e4;
-    border: 1px solid #f66;
-}
-
-p.admonition-title {
-    display: inline;
-}
-
-p.admonition-title:after {
-    content: ":";
-}
-
 pre {
     padding: 10px;
     background-color: rgb(250,250,250);
diff --git a/pandas-docs/source/bootstrap_html_translator.py b/pandas-docs/source/bootstrap_html_translator.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d199c926b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pandas-docs/source/bootstrap_html_translator.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+"""A custom Sphinx HTML Translator for Bootstrap layout
+"""
+import sys
+import re
+
+from docutils import nodes
+
+from sphinx.locale import admonitionlabels, _
+from sphinx.writers.html5 import HTML5Translator
+
+
+# Mapping of admonition classes to Bootstrap contextual classes
+alert_classes = {
+    "attention": "primary",
+    "caution": "warning",
+    "danger": "danger",
+    "error": "danger",
+    "hint": "info",
+    "important": "primary",
+    "note": "info",
+    "seealso": "info",
+    "tip": "primary",
+    "warning": "warning",
+    "todo": "info",
+    "example": "info",
+}
+
+
+class BootstrapHTML5Translator(HTML5Translator):
+    """Custom HTML Translator for a Bootstrap-ified Sphinx layout
+
+    This is a specialization of the HTML5 Translator of sphinx.
+    Only a couple of functions have been overridden to produce valid HTML to be
+    directly styled with Bootstrap.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwds)
+        self.settings.table_style = "table"
+
+    def visit_admonition(self, node, name=""):
+        # type: (nodes.Element, str) -> None
+        # copy of sphinx source to add alert classes
+        classes = ["alert"]
+        if name:
+            classes.append("alert-{0}".format(alert_classes[name]))
+        self.body.append(self.starttag(node, "div", CLASS=" ".join(classes)))
+        if name:
+            node.insert(0, nodes.title(name, admonitionlabels[name]))
+
+    def visit_table(self, node):
+        # type: (nodes.Element) -> None
+        # copy of sphinx source to *not* add 'docutils' and 'align-default' classes
+        # but add 'table' class
+        self.generate_targets_for_table(node)
+
+        self._table_row_index = 0
+
+        classes = [cls.strip(" \t\n") for cls in self.settings.table_style.split(",")]
+        # classes.insert(0, "docutils")  # compat
+        # if 'align' in node:
+        #     classes.append('align-%s' % node['align'])
+        tag = self.starttag(node, "table", CLASS=" ".join(classes))
+        self.body.append(tag)
diff --git a/pandas-docs/source/conf.py b/pandas-docs/source/conf.py
index 5442d6977..013ccbb06 100644
--- a/pandas-docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/pandas-docs/source/conf.py
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+sys.path.append('.')
+from bootstrap_html_translator import BootstrapHTML5Translator
+
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # IPython monkeypath - set all code blocks to verbatim to speed-up doc build
 
@@ -985,3 +989,4 @@ def setup(app):
     app.add_autodocumenter(AccessorMethodDocumenter)
     app.add_autodocumenter(AccessorCallableDocumenter)
     app.add_directive('autosummary', PandasAutosummary)
+    app.set_translator('html', BootstrapHTML5Translator)