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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

3.5 (4)
By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fourth Edition, is a fully revamped and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques for responsive web design. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching you the approaches needed to build most real-life websites, with downloadable examples in every chapter. Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design, including approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers. You can enjoy coverage of bleeding-edge features such as CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and subgrid. The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author. By the end of the book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. Read through as a complete guide or dip in as a reference for each topic-focused chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
7
Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
16
Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
19
Other Books You May Enjoy
20
Index

CSS 3D transformations

As you’ve probably already realized, a 3D transform allows us to manipulate an element in an imaginary 3D space. Let’s look at our first example. All we have in our example are two elements that each flip in 3D when hovered over. I’ve used hover here to invoke the flip, as it’s a simple mechanism to trigger the effect. However, the flipping action could just as easily be initiated with any other state change—a class change (via JavaScript) or when an element has received focus, for example.

The only difference between these two elements is that one flips horizontally and the other vertically. You can view them in a browser by opening example_11-05. Images fail to fully convey this technique, but the idea is that the element flips from the green “face” to the red “face,” giving the illusion of doing so through 3D space with the aid of perspective. Here’s a grab partway through the transition...