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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

Rotating the chart


By taking advantage of the CSS transform property, we can easily transform this chart from a vertical bar chart to a horizontal one. This process, however, cannot be defined generically, as we did for bars and series, because it is closely dependent upon the chart size; so, we'll use the .this_bar_chart selector.

To accomplish this, we'll change the width and height properties of the chart (we'll set them both to 500px to better handle the sub-sequential rotation), rotate the whole chart by 90 degrees, and then rotate back the text elements in order to keep them readable.

Here's the CSS:

@import "compass/css3/transform";

.this_bar_chart{
    @include transform(rotate(90deg) translate(10px,-10px));
    width: 500px;
    height: 500px;
    
    *[data-bar]{
        
        &:before{
            @include transform(rotate(-90deg) translate(-7px,0px));
        }
        
        .value:after{
            @include transform(rotate(-90deg) translate( 5px ,0px));
       ...