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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

Summary


Creating media queries opens up a world of possibilities; we are not forced to have to display every element of our page on each device, so we can be selective about what we show our visitors, depending on which device they use! We've covered a number of useful techniques in this chapter by just using a browser and text editor, so let's take a moment to recap what we've learned.

We kicked off with a quick interactive demo, to illustrate how some well-known sites have used media queries to realign content on screen, before exploring how media queries are constructed.

We then took a look at some of the different types. This included covering both the media types and features we can use to control how content is displayed. We then moved onto looking at some common breakpoint statements that we might use in our code, before exploring how we might need to create custom breakpoints for specific purposes. We also saw how we may even be able to reduce or remove breakpoints, if we make some...