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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

CSS Foundations

CSS Foundations

The anatomy of a rule set and the three types of style sheets

The box model and block versus inline elements

Ramping Up

Chrome DevTools

Renaming elements — classes and IDs

Descendant selectors

Creating a Page Layout with Floats

Creating a Page Layout with Floats

Float introduction–flowing text around images

Creating a multicolumn layout

Solving the problems of floats

Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3

Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3

Creating buttons with modular CSS

Multiple classes

Specificity rules

Styling the call-to-action button

Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu

Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu

Starting the navigation

Using pseudo classes

Absolute positioning

Building the drop-down menu

CSS animations (part 1)

CSS animations (part 2)

Finalizing the navigation

Becoming Responsive

Becoming Responsive

A fluid grid on the shark movies page

Flexible images

Shrinking images on the shark movies page

Using jQuery to trigger the menu on a click

Viewport meta tag

Web Fonts

The @font-face property

@font-face: a little tricky business

Google Web Fonts

Workflow for HiDPI Devices

Workflow for HiDPI Devices

Background images

Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)

Source set attribute (srcset)

Flexbox, Part 1

Flexbox, Part 1

Overview of the flexible box layout module

From floats to flexbox

Understanding flex-grow, flex-basis, flex-shrink, and flex

More layout, more positioning

Flexbox, Part 2

Flexbox, Part 2

Building the product listing

Using flex-wrap and align-content

Changing the display order of flex items

Vendor prefixes

Wrapping Up

Conclusion and links

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create buttons with modular CSS and use multiple classes to change the appearance of our buttons. You also discovered how CSS specificity works and how selectors can overrule each other. You now know how to keep your CSS lightweight and manageable. Finally, you learned how to use transitions, hover states, transforms, and gradients to style our buttons.

In the next chapter, we'll move on to creating our primary navigation tool. By doing this, you'll learn about CSS positioning, CSS3 pseudo classes, CSS3 animations, and how you can create a drop-down menu purely in CSS. This was a lot of fun!