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Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli

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Mastering CSS

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By: Rich Finelli

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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

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

CSS Foundations

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

The box model and block versus inline elements

Summary

Ramping Up

Text editors

CSS reset

Chrome DevTools

Renaming elements — classes and IDs

Descendant selectors

Summary

Creating a Page Layout with Floats

Float introduction–flowing text around images

Creating a multicolumn layout

Solving the problems of floats

Summary

Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3

Creating buttons with modular CSS

Multiple classes

Specificity rules

Transitions

Transforms

Styling the call-to-action button

Gradients

Summary

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

Summary

Becoming Responsive

Fluid grids

A fluid grid on the shark movies page

Flexible images

Shrinking images on the shark movies page

Media queries

Mobile menu

Using jQuery to trigger the menu on a click

Viewport meta tag

Summary

Web Fonts

The @font-face property

@font-face: a little tricky business

Google Web Fonts

Adobe Typekit

Icon fonts

Summary

Workflow for HiDPI Devices

2x images

Background images

Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)

Source set attribute (srcset)

Summary

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

Summary

Flexbox, Part 2

Building the product listing

Using flex-wrap and align-content

Changing the display order of flex items

Vendor prefixes

Summary

Wrapping Up

The next steps

Conclusion and links

Summary

Becoming Responsive

Up to this point, we've built almost everything with a fixed size. Our layout had a fixed width, our images had fixed widths, and our menu had a fixed width as well. But this is not going to deliver a favorable experience when using phones, tablets, and a multitude of other device sizes that are out there. Luckily, responsive web design is here to transform our static website into a fluid, device-friendly website.

The book that started it all - Responsive Web Design, by Ethan Marcotte, 2011. He outlined three main technical pillars of responsive web design:

Fluid grids,
Flexible images, and
Media queries.

We'll discuss these three fundamental CSS foundations of responsive web design, followed by how to build accommodations for primary navigation at smaller screen sizes, and finally, the viewport meta tag.

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