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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

Unit


CSS unit is a type of data with which we can define measurements, and it looks like this:

max-height: 150px;

Alternatively, it could also look like this:

transform: rotate(45deg);

There is no space between the number and the unit.

In most cases, the unit isn't required after the number 0 (zero).

There are several types of length units, such as described in the following explanations.

Relative length units

They are dependent on another element's length (usually, a parent element in the DOM) that relates directly to the element in question. When the other element's length changes, the length of the element in question maintains the defined proportion. In other words, there is no need to declare the length of the child element again.

Description

Relative units are always the best way to go if we want to build scalable systems. Setting values in a single element and then modifying that single element to affect the whole system saves a lot of time and many headaches.

ex

The ex suffix stands for an element...