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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

Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development

If you’ve read from the beginning to this point, you should have a solid understanding of the fundamentals needed for responsive web design. In fact, you’re likely a step ahead, in that you will be building your designs using the most recent layout mechanisms, Flexbox and Grid.

If we just needed to cover responsive web design, at this point, my work here would be pretty much done. But there is so much more we can look at.

This next section of the book aims to take you into more advanced and specialty areas. It’s not every day you will need to reach for a clamp function, or know when and why you would employ a where() selector. But in this section, we are going into greater depth, understanding what, primarily, CSS can offer you to solve the everyday challenges that are going to come your way as a developer.

Again, don’t think you need to remember all the detail of this stuff. Take it in, get...