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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

At-rules


CSS at-rules start with the @ character and are followed by a keyword or identifier. They always have to end with a semicolon (;) character.

Some of the most popular at-rules are @font-face, which is used to declare custom fonts; @import that is used to import external CSS files (not recommended by the way for performance reasons), and it is also used in some CSS preprocessors to bring external partial files that will eventually get compiled into a single CSS file (recommended method); @media is used to declare media queries in our responsive projects or print style sheets and so on; @keyframes is used to create animations and so on.

At-rules, let's see where they're at.

@charset

The @charset() at-rule defines the character encoding to be used by a style sheet, and it looks like this:

@charset "UTF-8";

Description

We rarely need to define the character encoding in a style sheet as long as it's defined in the HTML. When the browser detects the character encoding in the HTML, it implies...