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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)

Panels


The panel component is used to highlight areas on your page. Panels are given a background color and a border that is 1 px wide.

There are two types of panels: regular and callout. The regular panel has a light gray background while the callout panel uses the primary color for the background. Font colors are adjusted to suit their respective backgrounds.

A subtle tweak that Foundation adds to panels is to ensure there is no top margin on the first element in a panel, or a bottom margin on the last element in the panel. At the same time, it adds padding all around the container.

Panels also allow for the radius class to round the corners slightly. To use panels, just add the panel class to a container. The following is an example:

<div class="row">
  <div class="small-4 column">
    <h1 class="subheader">No panel</h1>
    <p>Hi, I'm a typical column in Foundation. Notice that my background color is the same as any column, in this case plain white. And I have...