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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)

@font-face: a little tricky business

On the surface, web fonts are pretty easy, but in reality, they get complicated when we want them to work in all modern browsers. Some browsers use OTF, others use WOFF, and some use EOT, RTF, and SVG. Let's go over the full setup for making a web font work using the @font-face property.

Making it work in all browsers

If we wanted to make this work in all browsers in the most optimal fashion, we need to provide quite a bit extra. Here's a snippet from the popular blog, CSS Tricks, that describes the ideal @font-face at-rule. (Using @font-face by Chris Coyier of CSS-tricks.com, August 25, 2016, https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/.)

@font-face {
font-family: &apos...