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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
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20
Index

Summary

We’ve had a good look at custom properties in this chapter, and considered ways in which they can be set and read. We have learned how custom properties respect the cascade, inheriting values from their parents, a feature that can be leveraged to our advantage. We have also considered the fact that if we find ourselves working with web components, custom properties provide a means of crossing the usually impenetrable style boundary inside a component. We also looked at environment variables, a specific kind of custom property that lets us deal with the (clears throat) “practicalities” of notches and other peculiarities of specific hardware.

In the second half of the chapter, we also looked at CSS mathematical functions. From ones you have perhaps looked at before, such as calc(), to real time-saving functions like clamp(), a function that is tailor-made to solve responsive sizing challenges.

We’ve spent a bit of time together at this point...