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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)

Starting the navigation

In this section, we'll begin by creating the cleanest HTML possible and then plug in the basic CSS to get it started. The following is what our final site should look like; this is what we're aiming for:

We have a typical horizontal navigation bar. Some of the items have a drop-down menu. We also have a shark logo on the left-hand side of the nav bar, which is overhanging nicely.

The semantic HTML for building a menu

Let's jump right in and type the HTML we need. We'll start with this nice, big HTML comment. As you may have noticed, I like these big guys. This is because it's easier to locate parts of the code I need quickly:

<!-- 
===============
Nav
===============
-->
...