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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the web. There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. Web pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design"ù methodology, allowing a website to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development. Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a website with HTML5 and CSS3 which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.With HTML5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and CSS3 media queries means designs can flex and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added ñ all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of CSS3.Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built "right" for today but also the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Responsive considerations for CSS3


It's worth remembering that different declarations can be used for different viewports. For example, although I might not mind the way the gradient pattern looks on smaller viewports:

I may choose not to use it for larger viewports (for example 768 px wide and greater). I can therefore just create a specific rule for the background gradient using media queries:

@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
  body {
    background-color:white;
    background-image:
      radial-gradient(hsla(0, 0%, 87%, 0.31) 9px, transparent 10px),
      repeating-radial-gradient(hsla(0, 0%, 87%, 0.31) 0,hsla(0, 0%, 87%, 0.31) 4px, transparent 5px, transparent 20px,hsla(0, 0%, 87%, 0.31) 21px, hsla(0, 0%, 87%, 0.31) 25px,transparent 26px, transparent 50px); 
    background-size: 30px 30px, 90px 90px; 
    background-position: 0 0;
  }
}

Remember that media queries will allow you to specify every element differently for different viewports if you wish. It's all about presenting the...