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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By : Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By: Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra

Overview of this book

Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—providing easy reading and navigation with minimum resizing, panning, and scrolling—and all of this across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. Responsive web design is becoming more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of the Internet’s total traffic. This book will give you in depth knowledge about the basics of responsive web design. You will embark on a journey of building effective responsive web pages that work across a range of devices, from mobile phones to smart TVs, with nothing more than standard markup and styling techniques. You'll begin by getting an understanding of what RWD is and its significance to the modern web. Building on the basics, you'll learn about layouts and media queries. Following this, we’ll dive into creating layouts using grid based templates. We’ll also cover the important topic of performance management, and discover how to tackle cross-browser challenges.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Making text fit on screen


When building sites, it goes without saying but our designs clearly must start somewhere—this is usually with adding text. It's therefore essential that we allow for this in our responsive designs at the same time.

Now is a perfect opportunity to explore how to make our text fluid and fill the available space. Although text is not media in the same way as images or video, it is still content that has to be added at some point to our pages! With this in mind, let's dive in and explore how we can make our text responsive.

Sizing with em units

When working on non-responsive sites, it's likely that sizes will be quoted in pixel values; it's a perfectly acceptable way of working. However, if we begin to make our sites responsive, then content won't resize well using pixel values; we have to use something else.

There are two alternatives: em or rem units. The former is based on setting a base font size that in most browsers defaults to 16px; in this example, the equivalent...