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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - Second Edition

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Second Edition
  4. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Second Edition
  5. Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. About the Reviewers
  8. www.PacktPub.com
  9. Preface
  10. What you need for this book
  11. Who this book is for
  12. Conventions
  13. Reader feedback
  14. Customer support
  15. 1. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design
  16. Defining responsive web design
  17. Setting browser support levels
  18. Our first responsive example
  19. The shortcomings of our example
  20. Summary
  21. 2. Media Queries – Supporting Differing Viewports
  22. Media query syntax
  23. Combining media queries
  24. Using media queries to alter a design
  25. Considerations for organizing and authoring media queries
  26. Combine media queries or write them where it suits?
  27. The viewport meta tag
  28. Media Queries Level 4
  29. Summary
  30. 3. Fluid Layouts and Responsive Images
  31. Introducing Flexbox
  32. Getting Flexy
  33. Responsive images
  34. Summary
  35. 4. HTML5 for Responsive Web Designs
  36. Starting an HTML5 page the right way
  37. Easy-going HTML5
  38. New semantic elements in HTML5
  39. HTML5 text-level semantics
  40. Obsolete HTML features
  41. Putting HTML5 elements to use
  42. WCAG and WAI-ARIA for more accessible web applications
  43. Embedding media in HTML5
  44. Responsive HTML5 video and iFrames
  45. A note about 'offline first'
  46. Summary
  47. 5. CSS3 – Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and New Features
  48. Anatomy of a CSS rule
  49. Quick and useful CSS tricks
  50. Word wrapping
  51. Facilitating feature forks in CSS
  52. New CSS3 selectors and how to use them
  53. CSS3 structural pseudo-classes
  54. CSS custom properties and variables
  55. CSS calc
  56. CSS Level 4 selectors
  57. Web typography
  58. New CSS3 color formats and alpha transparency
  59. Summary
  60. 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3
  61. Box shadows
  62. Background gradients
  63. Repeating gradients
  64. Background gradient patterns
  65. Multiple background images
  66. High-resolution background images
  67. CSS filters
  68. A warning on CSS performance
  69. Summary
  70. 7. Using SVGs for Resolution Independence
  71. The graphic that is a document
  72. Creating SVGs with popular image editing packages and services
  73. Inserting SVGs into your web pages
  74. Inserting an SVG inline
  75. What you can do with each SVG insertion method (inline, object, background-image, and img)
  76. Extra SVG capabilities and oddities
  77. Animating SVG with JavaScript
  78. Optimising SVGs
  79. Using SVGs as filters
  80. A note on media queries inside SVGs
  81. Summary
  82. 8. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations
  83. CSS3 2D transforms
  84. CSS3 3D transformations
  85. Animating with CSS3
  86. Summary
  87. 9. Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS3
  88. Understanding the component parts of HTML5 forms
  89. HTML5 input types
  90. How to polyfill non-supporting browsers
  91. Styling HTML5 forms with CSS3
  92. Summary
  93. 10. Approaching a Responsive Web Design
  94. View and use the design on real devices
  95. Embracing progressive enhancement
  96. Defining a browser support matrix
  97. Tiering the user experience
  98. Linking CSS breakpoints to JavaScript
  99. Avoid CSS frameworks in production
  100. Coding pragmatic solutions
  101. Use the simplest code possible
  102. Hiding, showing, and loading content across viewports
  103. Validators and linting tools
  104. Performance
  105. The next big things
  106. Summary
  107. Index

Chapter 5. CSS3 – Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and New Features

In the last few years, CSS has enjoyed a raft of new features. Some enable us to animate and transform elements, others allow us to create background images, gradients, mask and filter effects, and others still allow us to bring SVG elements to life.

We will get to all those capabilities in the next few chapters. Firstly I think it will be useful to look at some of the fundamentals that have changed in CSS in the last few years: how we select elements on the page, the units we can use to style and size our elements, and how existing (and future) pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements make CSS ever more powerful. We will also look at how we can create forks in our CSS code to facilitate the features supported in different browsers.

In this chapter, we will learn the following:

  • The anatomy of a CSS rule (what defines a rule, declaration and property, and value pairs)
  • Quick and handy CSS tricks for responsive designs (multiple columns, word wraps, truncation/text ellipsis, scrolling areas)
  • Facilitating feature forks in CSS (how to have some rules apply to some browsers and other rules apply to others)
  • How to use sub-string attribute selectors to select HTML elements
  • What nth-based selectors are and how we can use them
  • What pseudo classes and pseudo elements are (:empty, ::before, ::after, :target, :scope)
  • The new selectors in CSS Level 4 Selectors module (:has)
  • What CSS variables and custom properties are and how to write them
  • What the CSS calc function is and how to use it
  • Making use of viewport related units (vh, vw, vmin, and vmax)
  • How to make use of web typography with @font-face
  • RGB and HSL color modes with Alpha transparency

No one knows it all

No one can know everything. I've been working with CSS for over a decade and on a weekly basis I still discover something new in CSS (or rediscover something I'd forgotten). As such, I don't feel that trying to know every possible CSS property and value permutation is actually a worthy pursuit. Instead, I think it's more sensible to develop a good grasp of what's possible.

As such, we are going to concentrate in this chapter on some of the techniques, units, and selectors I have found most useful when building responsive web designs. I'm hoping you'll then have the requisite knowledge to solve most problems that come your way when developing a responsive web design.