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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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Index

CSS Nesting, Layers, Selectors, and More

In the last few years, CSS has enjoyed a raft of new features. Some enable us to animate and transform elements. Others allow us to manipulate color, gradients, and produce mask and filter effects, and others still allow us to bring SVG elements to life.

We will get to all those capabilities and more in the next few chapters. Firstly, I think it will be useful to look at more recent improvements to some of the fundamentals of CSS.

No one can know every nuance, capability, and syntax in the CSS language. I’ve been working with CSS for two decades and, on a weekly basis, I still discover something new – or, just as likely, rediscover something I’d forgotten! As such, I don’t feel that trying to know every possible CSS property and value permutation is actually a worthy pursuit. Instead, I think it’s more sensible to develop a good grasp of what’s possible and what capabilities exist that solve...

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