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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

Custom Properties and CSS Functions

Some years ago, I wrote a book about Sass, a superset language for CSS. One of the main selling points of Sass, alongside things like nesting – which we will look at later in the book – was that it allowed you to store oft-used values as variables. Things like colors could be named more simply as words rather than hex or RGB values, and that allowed for far easier reuse of those values.

Some years later, CSS got custom properties, which at first glance seemed like nothing more than a way to have variables in CSS, without needing a superset language like Sass. It turns out that CSS custom properties are far more powerful than Sass variables. So powerful, in fact, that a good share of this chapter is largely dedicated to them.

Another, newer, CSS addition that goes hand in hand with custom properties is the ability to manipulate values, including custom properties, with mathematical functions. Exploring these functions will also...