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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

3.5 (4)
By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fourth Edition, is a fully revamped and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques for responsive web design. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching you the approaches needed to build most real-life websites, with downloadable examples in every chapter. Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design, including approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers. You can enjoy coverage of bleeding-edge features such as CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and subgrid. The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author. By the end of the book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. Read through as a complete guide or dip in as a reference for each topic-focused chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
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Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
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Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
19
Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

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You can also mask elements with images, from either an image source with transparency such as a PNG graphic, a linear-gradient, which we looked at earlier in this chapter, or an SVG mask element. You can read about all the possibilities afforded to us in the specification here: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking-1/.

In the meantime, we will just look at a fairly straightforward example so you can appreciate the kind of effect that is possible and how the syntax works to achieve it.

Suppose we have an image. I have one that NASA took of Mars. I’d get one I took myself but, you know, it’s a bit of a jaunt.

Now, suppose we also have a PNG image that is transparent except for the word “MARS”. We can use this PNG as a mask on top of our image element.

This is what we see in the browser:

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Figure 8.29: A mask image applied

Here is our relevant HTML:

<img
  src="mars.jpg"
  alt="An image of Mars from space...