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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By : Andrew D. Patterson
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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By: Andrew D. Patterson

Overview of this book

<p>Every web designer needs a toolkit. From text editors to graphics programs, from table structures to fluid style sheets, the web designer has many tools and techniques to choose from. Zurb's Foundation framework is an excellent kit for today's web designer. It's fluid, it's easy to work with, it has plenty of components, and most importantly, you can apply your creativity to make your very own designs.<br /><br />Zurb's Foundation 4 is a practical, easy-to-use toolkit for the layout and construction of web pages. Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4 introduces Zurb Foundation’s powerful web design and development toolkit. Learn how to create professional layouts with ease, add powerful CSS and JavaScript components to your pages, and then customize and configure the design to your satisfaction. Understand how to efficiently manage your CSS and layout your pages with SASS, the style sheet language. This book will help you put Foundation 4 to work for you today!<br /><br />This book documents Foundation's grid system, all its components and plugins, and its generation of custom style sheets. The book serves as an all-encompassing introduction as well as a future reference guide. The foundation of Foundation is its grid system...and there is a whole lot more.<br /><br />Once you've covered the basics, you'll be ready to advance with SASS, the style sheet language, to customize your installation and layout your pages.<br /><br />With this book, you will discover all the CSS components and JavaScript plugins that are included in Foundation at the present time and learn how to integrate each of them into your web pages.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Starting with simple components


In this section, we'll describe a few of the simpler components, or widgets if you prefer that term. Then we'll move on to more complex components. This section will also demonstrate the use of the common color, size, and radius classes.

These components may or may not be standalone components on Foundation's download page. If not, they can be found inside a component that is present.

Keystrokes

The HTML <kbd> element is intended for representing user input—keystrokes. Foundation adds some custom styles to this element and adds a keystroke class that can be applied to any inline element to get the same effect.

Each of these will have the same effect:

<p>Press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to continue ...</p>
<p>Press <span class="keystroke">Enter</span> to continue ...</p>

If you look closely, you'll see that the word Enter is highlighted and displayed in a monospace font:

Inline lists

Foundation includes a simple inline-list...