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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)

A fluid grid on the shark movies page

Let's search for some other non-percentage-based widths/margins/paddings. So we're not worried about anything related to vertical distance, like height, margin-top, margin-bottom, padding-top or padding-bottom. And we're not worried about any value of 0.

We will come across auto for the left and right margin in the wrapper rule set:

.wrapper {
max-width: 960px;
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
}

This doesn't need to be converted into a percentage because auto automatically calculates the width based on the space available, so it's as good as a percentage.

We are worried about this margin property in the following declaration block:

.content-block .figure {
float: left;
margin: 30px;
border: 15px solid #fff;
overflow: hidden;
}

This rule set has a margin of 30px; it's using the single value syntax. This means the...