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Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Gradients

Our big ol' call-to-action button is almost complete. We just need to add a gradient, which, like transforms, transitions, and border-radius, is a feature in CSS3.

Using the ultimate CSS gradient generator

Since the gradient specification and syntax is somewhat lengthy and isn't consistent between browsers, the easiest way to use it is through an app that will create the CSS output for us. Normally, I shy away from things such as these, as I prefer to write my own code, but I will make an exception for gradients. The ultimate CSS gradient generator seems to work very well for me. The site is www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/. The gradient that we're shooting for is fairly simple. It goes from light...