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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)

Mobile menu

So far in this chapter, you've learned about Ethan Marcotte's three fundamentals of responsive web design – fluid grids, flexible images that squish, and media queries. That's kind of the easy part in a way. The hard part is figuring out the multitude of tricky design challenges; for example, what to do with our menu on a mobile, especially as we decide to add more menus. Luckily, this is the one area where a decent design pattern has emerged. We are going to forgo the horizontal menu that shows each button on the nav in lieu of a hidden menu that is activated by a click or touch. Upon being clicked or touched, the hidden menu will slide down vertically and show all the menu choices. We'll achieve this by styling the mobile nav in its open state. Then, we'll hide the nav and add in the menu icon that triggers the mobile menu to open...