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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)

CSS animations (part 1)

Our main navigation is now coming together, and our drop-down functionality is almost complete. One of the last finishing touches required for the dropdown is the CSS animation, to allow the drop-down menu to animate downward smoothly. Animations are a lot of fun, and modern browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and browsers starting with IE10, support them. IE9 will still show a drop-down menu, but it will simply appear/disappear. An animation is very similar to a transition, but instead of simply animating a state change, we can animate static elements and use different animation properties and key frames to control the animation. We'll get more into this later. So here's what we're going to do in this section: We'll define the animation-name, animation-duration, and animation-timing-function inside the selector of the element...