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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

Creating an HTML structure


What we're going to create is basically a slideshow where each slide is placed in a 3D space and the animation moves from one slide to the other. A basic slide structure can be as simple as:

<div data-sequence="1">
  <div data-slide>
    Hello,
  </div>
</div>

We need two nested div tags to define this structure; the first one will cover 100 percent of the window area, and the second div tag will have the necessary properties to hold its content in the center of the screen. Plus, we need to set up each slide so that they will be piled up one above the other because we need them all in the center before we start to move them in the 3D space.

We can use the flexbox CSS property to achieve this result. In fact, flexbox has properties to define both vertical and horizontal alignment.

Let's define a basic HTML structure based on what we have seen so far:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Movie Trailer</title>
 ...