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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)

Transitions

Understanding CSS specificity and how selectors overrule each other can alleviate a lot of frustration when using CSS. Now that we've got a better understanding of this, let's get back to our project and finish styling the buttons we have been working on. A button is incomplete unless it has a slick hover state with a smooth transition. We'll start this section by creating a hover state using the pseudo selector :hover. Then, we'll smooth it out with a transition before finally discussing when vendor prefixes are necessary.

Creating a hover state

At the moment, the buttons on our site are ghost buttons. They have no background color, a dark gray border, or dark gray text, as you can see in the...