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Professional CSS3

By : Piotr Sikora
Book Image

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

Flexbox


Flexbox is the one of the loudest and most modern layout methodologies used in current CSS projects. With flexbox, you can create a structure for your web page, which is more elastic than projects based on floating boxes. Why? We will check and make an investigation in this chapter. What you need to remember is that Internet Explorer supports flexbox since its 11th version.

Let's look at the basics of flexbox:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there is new dictionary related to flexbox:

  • Main axis (green arrow)

  • Main start (red line)

  • Main end (red line)

  • Main size (black line)

  • Cross axis (green arrow)

  • Cross start (red line)

  • Cross end (red line)

  • Cross size (black line)

Initialization of flexbox is very simple. You just need to add the following code to your container:

.flexContainer
  display: -webkit-box
  display: -moz-box
  display: -ms-flexbox
  display: -webkit-flex
  display: flex

The compiled code is:

.flexContainer {

    display: -webkit-box;

    display: -moz-box;

    display...