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Practical Web Design

By : Philippe Hong
Book Image

Practical Web Design

By: Philippe Hong

Overview of this book

Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributers
Preface
Index

Sticky navigation 


What we want to do is make the navigation stick to the top when we scroll passed the Blog section, as shown in the following screenshot: 

The sticky navigation we want to build.

To make this happen, we'll add an extra class with jQuery on the header. This extra class will make the navigation stick to the top and make the navigation background dark. Let's first create this extra class: 

header.sticky {

} 

Note

We need to be careful here as we didn't separate the class with space, which means it's when the header has also the class sticky

To this class, we will add the following properties: 

header.sticky {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  background-color: #212121;
  background-image: none;
}

Let's break that down: 

  • We use position: fixed; as we want to make the navigation stick to the top. position: fixed will position the element relative to the browser window. 
  • top: 0; tells us it will stick to the top. 
  • background-color: sets a solid background color.
  • background-image: none; removes...