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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fifth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

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By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fifth Edition, is the very latest, up-to-date version of one of the bestselling books on HTML5 and CSS. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching the approaches needed to build websites and applications, with downloadable examples. Written in Ben's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this title can be read as a complete guide, or used as a reference for each topic. If you're a backend dev looking to understand the front of the web stack and its possibilities, or perhaps a frontend dev looking for a comprehensive resource on everything new in HTML and CSS to build the most efficient UIs, this is the book for you. Even if you are deferring your code writing to AI, this book gives you the requisite knowledge to understand the validity and efficiency of AI's output. Among the many topics, we cover approaches for better accessibility, utilizing variable fonts, explainers on the latest color manipulation techniques and functions, in-depth coverage of bleeding-edge features such as scroll-driven animations, view transitions, CSS anchor positioning, CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and much more. By the end, you'll not only have a thorough understanding of responsive web design and what's possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also know how to best implement each technique.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
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Core Skills for Effective Frontend Web Development
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Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Flexbox alignment properties

If you want to play along with this example, start with example_04-06s.The important thing to understand with Flexbox alignment is the concept of the axis. There are two axes to consider, the main axis and the cross axis. What each of these represents depends on the direction the Flexbox is set to. For example, if the direction of your Flexbox is set to row, which is the default, the main axis will be the horizontal axis and the cross axis will be the vertical axis.Conversely, if your Flexbox direction is set to column, the main axis will be the vertical axis and the cross axis will be the horizontal axis. The specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#justify-content-property) provides the following illustration to aid authors:

Figure 4.7: This image from the specification shows that the main axis always relates to the direction the flex container is heading

Here's the basic markup you will want to add into the example file now if you want...

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