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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)

Chapter 3. Pick and Choose JavaScript Plugins

In the previous chapter we looked at Foundation's CSS components. There are several other components available that also require JavaScript, which is software that runs in the browser. JavaScript plugins can do a lot to enhance the capability of your website. But, along with all the wonderful features, you also get more complexity.

Troubleshooting HTML markup and CSS problems can be time consuming. Resolving problems with JavaScript is a much greater challenge. Having said this, Foundation's plugins will do amazing things for you, provided you set them up properly. This chapter will help you with that.

Most problems with plugins are a result of styles or JavaScript code from other sources or from combining the plugins in ways in which they haven't been tested. When you run into trouble, and you've checked and double-checked that the setup is correct, try isolating the plugin by setting it up in a simpler environment, or by removing extraneous style...