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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

CSS backgrounds


CSS backgrounds are very useful in modern web browsers. When should you use a background and when should you use the img tag? It's a simple question—every image that is an element of content should be inserted into the img tag and every image that is an element of a layout should be moved to the CSS background.

In this chapter, we will try to always use the same image to illustrate how each property and value is working. This image will be a bordered circle that will definitely show the correct aspect ratio (if it is bad, it will look more like ellipsis), and with the border, you can check how the repeating of images will work. The width and height of the image are equal to 90 pixels.

Repeating of background

There are many options available when working with a background. The first is image repeat. The default value is to repeat an image in both the x and y axes. So when you set, for example:

Background-image: url(/* here url to your img*/)

Our SASS example:

.container
  width...