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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the web. There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. Web pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design"ù methodology, allowing a website to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development. Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a website with HTML5 and CSS3 which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.With HTML5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and CSS3 media queries means designs can flex and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added ñ all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of CSS3.Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built "right" for today but also the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Fixing the design for different viewport widths


With our meta viewport problem fixed, no browsers are now zooming the page, so we can set about fixing the design for different viewports. In the CSS, we'll add a media query for devices such as tablets (for example, iPad) that have a viewport width of 768 pixels in portrait view (as the landscape viewport width is 1024 pixels, it renders the page fine when loaded in Landscape view).

@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
  #wrapper { 
    width: 768px; 
  }
  #header,#footer,#navigation {
    width: 748px; 
  }  
}

Our media query is re-sizing the width of the wrapper, header, footer, and navigation elements if the viewport size is no larger than 768 pixels. The following screenshot shows how this looks like on our iPad:

I'm actually quite encouraged by that. The content now fits on the iPad display (or any other viewport no larger than 768 pixels) with no clipping. However, we need to fix the Navigation area as the links are extending off the...