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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

CSS preprocessors


In this section, we'll try to address the biggest issue with this project: the whole stylesheet is strictly dependent upon how many images are displayed in the gallery. Every effect is tailored around this number, and so adding a new image can cause a lot of work in our CSS.

To solve this problem we can use a CSS preprocessor, which lets us create a file in a language that includes some facilities such as loops and variables, and one that can be compiled into a CSS stylesheet.

We'll use Sass for this project. To install it, you need to first install Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.sorg/en/downloads/) and then type gem install sass from a terminal emulator within your project directory (depending on your operating system, you may need to use sudo gem install sass instead).

Once this installation is complete, due to the fact that SCSS is a superset of CSS3, we can create an scss/application.scss file by duplicating the content of css/application.css.

Next we can prepend the whole...