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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)

Absolute positioning

In this section, we're going to start working on the different CSS positioning properties, as well as their complementary offset properties. First, we'll absolutely position the shark logo and follow that up by using fixed positioning for the entire navigation bar.

Absolutely positioning the shark

We've got our menu in place, but the shark clearly sits on top of the nav. We need it to be aligned horizontally, more or less. We need to fix the shark so it overhangs the nav bar as well. We'll also want the entire nav to remain stuck to the top of the browser window:

So let's go to our CSS and add position: absolute to the nav figure selector. Create a new selector underneath the...