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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By: Gilberto Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Owing to the different types of devices that offer Internet browsing today, responsive web designing has become a booming area. The heightened use of CSS3 and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery has led to shorter responsive web design times. You can now create a responsive website swiftly that works richly in any device a user might possess.</p> <p>"Responsive Web Design with jQuery" is a practical book focused on saving your development time using the useful jQuery plugins made by the frontend community. Follow the chapters, and learn to design and augment a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book presents a practical know how of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of frontend web development.</p> <p>This book helps you implement the concept of responsive web design in clear, gradual, and consistent steps, demonstrating each solution, and driving you to practice it and avoid common mistakes.</p> <p>You will learn how to build a responsive website; right from its structure, conception, and adapting it to screen device width. We will also take a look at different types of menu navigation and how to convert text, images, and tables so as as to display them graciously on different devices. Features such as the carousel slider and form elements will also be covered, including the testing phase and the measures to create correct fallbacks for old browsers.</p> <p>With "Responsive Web Design with jQuery", you will learn to create responsive websites quickly by using CSS3 and the incredible jQuery plugins. You will also learn to save your time by tailoring solutions created and tested by the community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How percentage gives flexibility to the structure


Some old websites, and even recent ones, that do not care about the flexible structure, still use pixel as the unit of measurement. Pixel provides us greater control of its structure and accuracy. But, nowadays, we no more have control over where the website will be displayed (as we saw in Chapter 1, Exploring Responsive Web Design), which generates the need to build flexible structures where elements may stretch and fit the dimension.

Percentage always works as it is related to the value declared in its parent element. So, if a div tag is of size 50 percent and its parent element has 600 px, the div tag will be of the size 300 px, as the following figure shows:

The same applies to a percentage where its parent element is of 50 percent of the actual size of an object, the div tag that is of 50 percent of the size will look like it is 25 percent, maintaining proportions. Let's see the following figure:

But, the question is: what if we do not...