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Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By : Sandro Paganotti
Book Image

Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By: Sandro Paganotti

Overview of this book

CSS3 unveils new possibilities for frontend web developers: things that would require JavaScript, such as animation and form validation, or even third party plugins, such as 3D transformations, are now accessible using this technology."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" contains ten web projects fully developed using cutting edge CSS3 techniques. It also covers time saving implementation tips and tricks as well as fallback, polyfills, and graceful degradation approaches.This book draws a path through CSS3; it starts with projects using well supported features across web browsers and then it moves to more sophisticated techniques such as multi polyfill implementation and creating a zooming user interface with SVG and CSS. React to HTML5 form validation, target CSS rules to specific devices, trigger animations and behavior in response to user interaction, gain confidence with helpful tools like SASS, learn how to deal with old browsers and more."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" is a helpful collection of techniques and good practices designed to help the implementation of CSS3 properties and features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding labels


Each button must have its own symbol on it. To obtain this result, we can use an HTML5 data-* attribute, such as data-symbol. HTML5 considers all data-* attributes valid and free for developers to be used to hold some application-specific information, such as in this case. We can then insert the value of the custom attribute inside the push button using the content property. Let's see how, but first we need to update our <a> elements. So let's edit index.html:

<a href="#" class="punch" data-symbol="!">PUNCH</a>
<a href="#" class="jump" data-symbol="★">JUMP</a>

Note

To type the Black star (★) (Unicode character: U+2605), we can do a copy and paste from http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2605/index.htm, or we can use the character map included in Windows.

Next, we need to add proper instructions to application.css:

/* text */
#arcade_game a:before{
  font-family: 'Chango', cursive;
  text-align: center;
  color: rgba(255,255,255, 0.4);
  text...