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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.

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Mastering CSS
Rich Finelli
Oct, 2017 | 522 pages
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
CSS Foundations
CSS Foundations
The anatomy of a rule set and the three types of style sheets
The box model and block versus inline elements
Summary
2
Ramping Up
Ramping Up
Text editors
CSS reset
Chrome DevTools
Renaming elements — classes and IDs
Descendant selectors
Summary
3
Creating a Page Layout with Floats
Creating a Page Layout with Floats
Float introduction–flowing text around images
Creating a multicolumn layout
Solving the problems of floats
Summary
4
Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3
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
5
Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu
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
6
Becoming Responsive
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
7
Web Fonts
Web Fonts
The @font-face property
@font-face: a little tricky business
Google Web Fonts
Adobe Typekit
Icon fonts
Summary
8
Workflow for HiDPI Devices
Workflow for HiDPI Devices
2x images
Background images
Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)
Source set attribute (srcset)
Summary
9
Flexbox, Part 1
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
10
Flexbox, Part 2
Flexbox, Part 2
Building the product listing
Using flex-wrap and align-content
Changing the display order of flex items
Vendor prefixes
Summary
11
Wrapping Up
Wrapping Up
The next steps
Conclusion and links
Summary

What you need for this book

Throughout the book, I've used Chrome as my browser because of its DevTools, among other things, but other browsers have similar tools. We'll use DevTools to explore code directly in the browser.

I've also used macOS throughout. If you're a Windows user and I refer to the command (cmd) key anywhere in the book, you should pretend that I am referring to the Ctrl key. Other than that, I don't think this will be an issue.

I have used the text editor Sublime Text 3. I should say that Sublime isn't the only good one out there. There are others like Atom and Visual Studio Code that do many of the same things.

Even though this book is on mastering CSS, we can't do much with CSS without HTML. So, we'll be working in HTML quite a bit. The goal is to use very clean, semantic HTML; that's what we want to aim for.

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