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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

Quick and useful CSS3 tricks


In my day-to-day work, some of the new CSS3 features I use constantly and others I've never needed. Before getting into the heavier stuff, I thought it might be useful to share a couple of CSS3 goodies that make life easier, especially in responsive designs, by accomplishing simple tasks that used to be minor headaches.

CSS3 multiple columns for responsive designs

Ever needed to make a single piece of text appear in multiple columns? Until CSS3, you'd need to separate the content into different markup elements and then style accordingly. Altering markup for stylistic purposes is never a good practice. CSS3 allows us to span one or more pieces of content across multiple columns. Consider the following markup:

<div id="main" role="main">
    <p>lloremipsimLoremipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
// LOTS MORE TEXT //
</p>
    <p>lloremipsimLoremipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
// LOTS MORE TEXT //
</p>
</div>

You can make all that...