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Professional CSS3

By : Piotr Sikora
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Professional CSS3

By: Piotr Sikora

Overview of this book

CSS is the preferred technology to design modern web pages. Although CSS is often perceived as a simple language, applying modern styles to web pages with CSS and maintaining the code for larger websites can be quite tricky. We will take you right from understanding CSS to designing high-quality web pages in CSS3. We'll quickly take you through CSS3's features, and show you how to resolve common issues so you can build your basic framework. Finally, you will learn about code architecture and CSS methodologies used in scalable apps and you'll explore the various new features of CSS3, such as FlexBox, to help you create the most modern layout methodologies. By the end of the book, you will be a master at creating pure CSS web pages and will know sophisticated web design techniques, giving you an edge over other web designers.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Gathering other reusable mixins


What we need is a bunch of useful and reusable mixins. What can be additionally helpful? Let's think:

  • Primitives

  • Inline lists

Primitives

As you can remember from one of the previous chapters, we have been using primitives. List of mixins which creates primitives can be very useful and helpful part of our framework. We will we have mixins for:

  • Rectangle (with and without a fill)

  • Circle/ring

  • Triangle

Let's have a quick reminder:

=rectangle($w, $h, $c)
  width: $w
  height: $h
  background: $c

=square($w, $c)
  width: $w
  height: $w
  background: $c

=circle($size, $color)
  width: $size
  height: $size
  border-radius: 50%
  background: $color

=ring($size, $color, $width)
  width: $size
  height: $size
  border-radius: 50%
  border: $width solid $color
  background: none

=triangleRight($width, $height, $color)
  width: 0
  height: 0
  border-style: solid
  border-width: $height/2 0 $height/2 $width
  border-color: transparent transparent transparent $color

=triangleLeft...