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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
3.5 (4)
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

The color-contrast() function

As interesting as the color-mix() function is, it’s not something I can think of immediate use cases for.

However, the color-contrast() function is different. The color-contrast() function lets you specify a color, then at least another two colors, to effectively compete for the title of “Most Contrasting Color.” That’s not a real thing by the way, but it does mean a huge difference to day-to-day life as a developer trying to ensure you create suitably contrasting sites for accessibility. Let’s take a look at some examples.

This first example of color-contrast is the 11th swatch in our example file:

.header-text {
    background-color: #333;
    color: color-contrast(#333 vs #666, #545454, #777, #f90);
}

In this example, we set the background to a dark gray (#333) to test the contrast against. Then we use the vs keyword to separate the colors that are going to be tested as the color with the highest...