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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked in detail at two big changes to CSS. The first, cascade layers, gives us a fundamentally different set of tools to organize our code, and we can use it in browsers today. It’s the perfect way of keeping third-party code from causing unwanted side effects.

We then looked at CSS nesting, new functionality still in the mere specification stage that promises to offer us new ways to write more compact and expressive code. There are tools to write it today, and hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, it will be something we can write without thinking whenever we write CSS.

CSS has moved at an incredible pace in the last few years, and it seems that never a week goes by without me coming across some new functionality I have missed or that is coming to browsers soon. It’s certainly easy to feel overwhelmed with the pace of changes in front-end development. However, you shouldn’t. With some common sense and a basic interest...