Book Image

Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
Book Image

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)

Float introduction–flowing text around images

Let's start this chapter with an introduction to floats. We'll talk about the original purpose of floats, followed by the basic problem that they cause and how to clear elements that come after floats. In this section, we'll also start work on a new HTML page about shark movies that you can find in the book download package.

The Shark movies page

Here we have a new HTML page about shark movies. If you look at this page, you'll see an image on top of a title, on top of some text, and on top of a link; as you scroll down, you'll see that there are three sections like that for each of the three movies:

The HTML is fairly straightforward. There are...