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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By : Andrew D. Patterson
Book Image

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)

Buttons


Buttons can be big, small, colored, rounded, dropdown, split, and grouped. You need a button on your website? Foundation has the classes for it in its button components.

Remember labels? A button is similar to a label with an action behind it.

Regular buttons

Foundation supports the <button> element and the button class. Most of the time, you can use one or the other, and it will have the same effect.

Other than the text in the button, the following will be identical:

<button>&lt;button&gt;</button>
<div class="button">&lt;div class="button"&gt;</div>
<span class="button">&lt;span class="button"&gt;</span>
<a href="#" class="button">&lt;a class="button"&gt;</a>

The following is the screenshot resulting from the preceding code:

Compared to labels, buttons have a border effect that makes them appear raised. The default button is taller than a label. It has special hover and focus effects. Buttons support...