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Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By : DAVID KARLINS
Book Image

Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By: DAVID KARLINS

Overview of this book

<p>Dreamweaver is the most powerful and industry-leading web design software that utilizes cutting edge web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery for web and mobile development. These technologies have radically reconfigured the process of designing Web content and function in the widest possible range of browsing environments ranging from desktops to mobile devices.For experienced Dreamweaver designers and for designers new to Dreamweaver, this book explains in detail how to take advantage of the new features available in the latest releases of Dreamweaver that add support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. In addition to this, the book also contains detailed step-by-step directions for building mobile apps in Dreamweaver CS5.5.This book starts off by teaching you to create web pages in Dreamweaver using the latest technology and approaches — HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It demonstrates how to create or customize pages with HTML5 layouts and add multimedia to these pages with HTML5 elements. Then you will learn to add various CSS3 effects to web pages. The book also covers different techniques of adding interactivity to web pages. The later chapters show how to optimize web pages with Dreamweaver for display in various browsing environments. You will also learn to build jQuery-based mobile apps from scratch in the later chapters. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned several techniques to use the latest features of Dreamweaver for web and mobile development.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Identifying style rules

Now that we have explored on how to work with the content of generated HTML5 layouts; let's turn to formatting those pages.

To review, there are two main components of this: formatting the regular HTML tags that define the look of the page overall; and formatting the HTML5 elements themselves. In the remainder of this chapter, we will learn to do the former, which is a substantial part of page design with or without HTML5.

Remember back when you first generated an HTML5 layout? You were asked to save an associated CSS file with a long name either HTML5_twoColFixRtHdr.css or HTML5_thrColFixHdr.css.

That supplied CSS file, is what applies formatting to the HTML5 elements and other layout features of your web page. You can see that attached style sheet in the CSS Styles panel. In the recipe at the end of this chapter, you will save that CSS file with your own file name as you customize it.

HTML5 layout elements require styles

Without the CSS style definitions in those...