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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 some randomness to the gallery


Now that we've addressed the browser compatibility issues, we can safely remove the experimental comments and classes we previously attached to the images.

To create a sense of randomness, we can define a few groups of classes, each group having more variants of the same property, and then we can pick one class for each group of each image we want to display. Here's an example; let's add the following to application.css:

/* sizes */
.size-a{
  width: 30%;
}
    
.size-b{
  width: 35%;
}
    
.size-c{
  width: 50%;
}
    
/* z-indexes */
.depth-a{
  transform: translateZ(10px);
  z-index: 1;
}
    
.depth-b{
  transform: translateZ(50px);
  z-index: 2;
}
    
.depth-c{
  transform: translateZ(100px);
  z-index: 3;
}

.depth-d{
  transform: translateZ(150px);
  z-index: 4;
}
    
.depth-e{
  transform: translateZ(200px);
  z-index: 5;
}

Now we can substitute the images used in the previous section with this list, where each image has a depth-* and one size...