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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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Using @supports to fork CSS

When you’re building out a responsive web design, attempting to provide a single design that works everywhere, on every device, it’s a simple fact that you’ll frequently encounter situations when features or techniques are not supported on certain devices. It might be that you want to do something with a newer selector, such as :has(), which we looked at earlier in the chapter. In such an instance, you may want to create a fork in your CSS. If the browser supports a feature, provide one set of rules; if it doesn’t, provide different rules.

This is the kind of situation that gets handled by if/else or switch statements in JavaScript. In CSS, we use the @supports at-rule.

Now, before we dig into feature queries, it is worth pointing out a straightforward way of providing fallbacks for older browsers. Suppose we want to use some of our new viewport-related length units but ensure we have some kind of fallback for older browsers...

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