Book description
Push CSS3 and your design skills to the limit—and beyond!
Representing an evolutionary leap forward for CSS, CSS3 is chock-full of new capabilities that dramatically expand the boundaries of what a styling language can do. But many of those new features remain undocumented, making it difficult to learn what they are and how to use them to create the sophisticated sites and web apps clients demand and users have grown to expect.
Until now.
This book introduces you to all of CSS3's new and advanced features, and, with the help of dozens of real-world examples and live demos, it shows how to use those features to design dazzling, fully-responsive sites and web apps.
Among other things, you'll learn how to:
Use advanced selectors and an array of powerful new text tools
Create adaptable background images, decorative borders, and complex patterns
Create amazing effects with 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and keyframe-based animations
Take advantage of new layout tools to solve an array of advanced layout challenges—fast
Vastly simplify responsive site design using media queries and new layout modules
Create abstract and scalable shapes and icons with pseudo-elements
Leverage preprocessors and use CSS like a programming language within a stylesheet context
Don't pass up this opportunity to go beyond the basics and learn what CSS3 can really do!
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publisher's Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: New Toys
- Part II: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation
- Part III: Getting to Grips with New Layout Tools
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Part IV: Pushing the Limits
- Chapter 13: Getting Creative with Pseudo-elements
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Chapter 14: Using Preprocessors to Push CSS3 to the Limit
- What Is a CSS Preprocessor?
- What Can CSS Preprocessors Do for You?
- Choosing the Right Preprocessor for You
- Getting to Grips with the Dark Side of Preprocessors
- Making CSS3 More Efficient with Mixins
- Creating Proportional Layouts with Simple Math
- Using Functions to Form a Dynamic Color Palette
- A Word of Caution on Preprocessors
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Chapter 15: Creating Practical Solutions Using Only CSS3
- Chapter 16: The Future of CSS
- Index
Product information
- Title: CSS3 Pushing the Limits
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118652633
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