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Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using flex-wrap and align-content

The flex-wrap property allows us to determine whether we are going to wrap our content to a second row or squeeze all the flex items into a single row; align-content determines the alignment of a row that is being wrapped to multiple lines, thus becoming multiple rows. They are basically best friends.

Using flex-wrap

We'll return and use our flexbox sample page (flexbox.html) as a playground for testing these properties. Here's our CSS we ended up with in this area:

/***************
Flexbox demo
***************/
.flex-container {
margin-top: 200px;
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
}
.flex-item {
padding: 20px;
}
.flex-item:last-child {
margin-left: auto;
}
.flex-item1 { background...