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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

User interface


The following properties are directly tied to UX Design but on the frontend. Addressing the following properties from the beginning of any build can go a long way.

Let's check them out.

cursor

The cursor CSS property defines the style of the pointer, and it looks like this:

cursor: pointer;

Description

The cursor property is meant to work only in the hover state; this property is not meant to replace the styling of the pointer in its normal state.

All operating system have many types of cursors for all types of behaviors, so whenever we need a certain action a cursor for it may already exist.

We can also use custom cursors. Keep in mind the following notes:

  • It's recommended that the image of the cursor is 32 x 32 pixels.

  • It's required to declare a built-in cursor to act as a fallback in case the custom image(s) doesn't load.

  • Legacy versions of IE require an absolute path to the image of the custom cursor.

  • We can use .cur or .png files for custom cursors. However, legacy IEs only support...