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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)

The @font-face property

Let's start this chapter by learning how to use the @font-face property to add a web font to our site. First, we'll add an OTF file to a folder on our site, then we'll define a new font in our CSS, and finally, we'll apply that CSS to the elements on our web page.

Adding font files directly to the site

In our project files for this section, we have a new folder called fonts. Inside this folder, there's an OTF file called LeagueGothic-Regular:

So now this font lives in our site's folder, and the end user visiting our website will download this font onto their computer, just like they downloaded the HTML, CSS file, and images. But first, we have to tell it to do that and...