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RESS Essentials

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RESS Essentials

Overview of this book

RESS is a new methodology in the world of web design and development. It attempts to solve the problems that accompany the RWD (responsive web design) approach to web design. RESS is still in its infancy, but it is growing at an exponential rate. RESS Essentials shows you how to make server-side applications smarter and more aware of a visitor's environment limitations (device, screen size, and browser). This allows you to create faster and more reliable websites. Through this book, you will build a solid base of knowledge on RESS-related technologies, while the step-by-step tutorials will help you to create your own RESS system. This book is an introduction to RESS alchemy and gives you an incentive to build your own RESS lab. It will give you a broad overview of the multiple techniques used to code responsive websites in responsible ways. Beginning with an overview of RWD, you will learn the steps involved in setting up RWD for client-side development. You will then learn how to scale images using client- and server-side technology. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the implementation of RESS application patterns, browser feature detection, and various RESS architectures. RESS Essentials will also teach you how to use jQuery with some RWD design patterns and how to employ REST API for RWD pages.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
RESS Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Converting a table to an accordion element with jQuery


I selected this concept to show a way of creating responsive elements with CSS and some jQuery code. The plugin we are about to create in this chapter is inspired by the CSS-tricks example of reformatting a table with CSS into a vertical layout (as demonstrated at http://css-tricks.com/examples/ResponsiveTables/responsive.php). Our plugin will go a little further and will convert the table into an accordion type element. We start by stacking table cells vertically by converting rows, cells, and the table body to block elements inside the media query as follows:

@media screen and (max-width: 820px) {
  table.responsive td, table.responsive tr, table.responsive, table.responsive tbody {
  display: block;
  }

We don't need the column headers (with the field names) in the accordion, so let's hide those with the following code statement:

table.responsive th{
  display: none;
}

Instead of the <th> headers at the top of the table, we will...