In the last section, you learned about the power of a good text editor. In this section, we're going to use that text editor to explore something called a CSS reset. There's a lot of pieces to starting a website that need to be in place and are typically part of your website boilerplate. I call these pieces your "base layer". A big part of this base layer is the CSS reset. A reset allows you to eliminate browser inconsistencies with regard to default browser styling and eliminate all default browser styles in general. It allows you to more easily provide your handcrafted styles using CSS. In this section, we're going to first load in a CSS reset, then examine that reset and see what it's doing. Finally, we'll add to and customize the reset to fit our needs.
Mastering CSS
By :
Mastering CSS
By:
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.
Related Content you might be interested in
Current Title:
Mastering CSS
No titles found
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
CSS Foundations
Ramping Up
Creating a Page Layout with Floats
Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3
Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu
Becoming Responsive
Web Fonts
Workflow for HiDPI Devices
Flexbox, Part 1
Flexbox, Part 2
Wrapping Up
Customer Reviews