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Professional CSS3

By : Piotr Sikora
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Professional CSS3

By: Piotr Sikora

Overview of this book

CSS is the preferred technology to design modern web pages. Although CSS is often perceived as a simple language, applying modern styles to web pages with CSS and maintaining the code for larger websites can be quite tricky. We will take you right from understanding CSS to designing high-quality web pages in CSS3. We'll quickly take you through CSS3's features, and show you how to resolve common issues so you can build your basic framework. Finally, you will learn about code architecture and CSS methodologies used in scalable apps and you'll explore the various new features of CSS3, such as FlexBox, to help you create the most modern layout methodologies. By the end of the book, you will be a master at creating pure CSS web pages and will know sophisticated web design techniques, giving you an edge over other web designers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Professional CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Forms – enable superpowers


As mentioned previously, in the input, there is no way to use :before and :after pseudoelements. But a quick trick to do that, which will be better described in the following sections, is to wrap it in some other elements. It always helps to keep some label and input groups and additionally allows to append the :before and :after pseudoelements.

For example, take the following bare HTML form code:

<form>
    <input type="text" placeholder="Login"/>
    <input type="password" placeholder="Password"/>
</form>

Now you just need to add wrapping elements:

<form>
    <div class="inputKeeper">
        <input type="text" placeholder="Login"/>
    </div>
    <div class="inputKeeper">
        <input type="password" placeholder="Password"/>
    </div>
</form>

Where is the difference? It is easy to see it. The first form output is as follows:

The second form is as follows:

How to style simple input

Styling input...