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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 (21 chapters)
Professional CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Display types


There are a few display types in CSS whose definition and behaviors are the foundation of frontend developers. The most known and basic display values are as follows:

  • Inline

  • Block

  • Inline-block

  • Table/table-cell

  • Flex (this will be described further in this book)

Block elements

Block elements always start from a new line. The most important properties of block elements are width and height, which can be changed from CSS code. For better understanding, let's check the following screenshot:

It is easy to see that all the block elements are taking as much width as they can.

The mainly used HTML block-level elements are as follows:

  • address

  • article

  • aside

  • blockquote

  • canvas

  • div

  • footer

  • form

  • h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6

  • header

  • main

  • nav

  • ol

  • output

  • p

  • pre

  • section

  • table

  • ul

  • video

Inline elements

Inline elements can be described as elements that take as much space as they need. It can be best described using the following image:

The mainly used HTML inline-level elements are as follows:

  • acronym

  • cite

  • code

  • dfn

  • strong

  • samp

  • var

  • a

  • bdo

  • br

  • img

  • map

  • object...