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Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By : Sandro Paganotti
Book Image

Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3

By: Sandro Paganotti

Overview of this book

CSS3 unveils new possibilities for frontend web developers: things that would require JavaScript, such as animation and form validation, or even third party plugins, such as 3D transformations, are now accessible using this technology."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" contains ten web projects fully developed using cutting edge CSS3 techniques. It also covers time saving implementation tips and tricks as well as fallback, polyfills, and graceful degradation approaches.This book draws a path through CSS3; it starts with projects using well supported features across web browsers and then it moves to more sophisticated techniques such as multi polyfill implementation and creating a zooming user interface with SVG and CSS. React to HTML5 form validation, target CSS rules to specific devices, trigger animations and behavior in response to user interaction, gain confidence with helpful tools like SASS, learn how to deal with old browsers and more."Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3" is a helpful collection of techniques and good practices designed to help the implementation of CSS3 properties and features.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating bar labels


Good! We can now remove the temporary border properties and move on to the next step, creating bar labels.

At the moment, our bar labels are contained within the data-bar element as values of the data-label attribute, so we have to use an :after or :before pseudo selector in conjunction with a content property to be able to print them.

We also need to reserve some space for those labels, because, at the moment, all of the container's height is occupied by the bars of the chart to be created.

We can achieve this by adding padding-bottom to the container (along with a box-sizing property to keep the original container height, where supported) and then placing the bar label outside and below each data-bar element, using absolute positioning.

Here's the small chunk of CSS code we can implement to achieve this behavior:

@import "compass/css3/box-sizing";

*[data-bar-chart]{
    padding-bottom: 30px;
    @include box-sizing(border-box);

    /* temporary property only for this...