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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

Summary


And this is how you start the first chapter about CSS Properties! We learned what CSS properties and vendor prefixes are.

Now, with the animation properties clear we can start working on great interactions for our sites and applications. We can also handle all background features, be positioning or even blend modes to create nice visual effects without having to depend on image editors of any kind.

The Box Model concept is something we can tackle easier especially knowing that legacy IE's have less and less impact than before. This is greatly impacted by how we work with CSS units since we need to understand which units work best with different use cases and requirements.

We learned that CSS columns are a great tool to distribute long strings of text. And that the mighty Flexbox is the go-to feature to arrange elements in containers.

Improving our typography and transformations are part of the next chapter, amongst other interesting properties.

Buckle up!