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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
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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

Understanding and converting the text to relative units


One of the main advantages of using relative units is the cascade effect generated when the user modifies the font size of the base element (from the browser) and all font sizes increase/decrease proportionally.

These days, almost every browser has the default settings of this base element <html> at 16 px. However, this value can be modified on the user side if the user wants to increase the browser font size making it easier to read.

Before talking about the most commonly used measuring units, there are two units we would emphasize because their popularity has grown impressively, and they are: vw (viewport width) and vh (viewport height).

These viewport units still do not have much acceptance for most used browsers, but I suggest you check either http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/ or http://caniuse.com/viewport-units to stay tuned because these units make the scale of the font size proportionally easier depending on the size of the...