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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

Drawing primitives with CSS


Drawing primitives is the easiest and main case in graphic fundamentals. In CSS, it can be used in common cases such as adding details to buttons or any other DOM elements. Let's learn the basics of drawing primitives in CSS.

How to draw a rectangle/square

The easiest primitive to draw in CSS is a rectangle. Let's draw a simple rectangle using the following code:

HTML code:

<div class="rectangle"></div>

SASS code:

.rectangle
width: 100px
height: 200px
background: black

Compiled CSS:

.rectangle {
    width: 100px;
    height: 200px;
    background: black;
}

This will draw a rectangle in the browser as follows:

To draw a square, we need to create the following code:

HTML code:

<div class="square"></div>

SASS code:

.square
width: 100px
height: 100px
background: black

Compiled CSS:

.square {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background: black;
}

Reusable mixins for square and rectangle:

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