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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)

Specificity rules

We're beginning to understand how a modular approach to CSS allows us to use classes as little chunks of CSS that can be used anywhere on the web page to style any element. This makes writing CSS very convenient. However, it only works if the CSS is kept lightweight. As you'll learn in this section, every CSS selector can be weighed on a scale, and the heaviest selector wins the style battle between two competing selectors. So, I'll start by explaining the weights of different selectors and how they can overrule one another. Then, we'll talk a bit about how the universal selector and the !important declaration fit into the weights of the selectors.

The weights of different selectors

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