Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS: Build future-proof responsive websites using the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques, 4th Edition
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Packt Publishing
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fourth Edition, is a fully revamped and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques for responsive web design. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching you the approaches needed to build most real-life websites, with downloadable examples in every chapter.
Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design, including approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers. You can enjoy coverage of bleeding-edge features such as CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and subgrid.
The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author.
By the end of the book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. Read through as a complete guide or dip in as a reference for each topic-focused chapter.
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"Behind every great website is the fundamentals HTML and CSS. Ben Frain covers the basics both clearly and logically. This is a solid book for anyone to get up to speed on coding and design quickly."
--Rob Anthony O'Rourke, Owner of Fox Web School
"This book is perfect for beginners and professionals with years of experience."
--Mayk Brito, Senior Front-end Engineer and Educator at Rocketseat
About the Author
- Use media queries, including detection for touch/mouse and color preference
- Learn HTML semantics and author accessible markup
- Facilitate different images depending on screen size or resolution
- Write the latest color functions, mix colors, and choose the most accessible ones
- Use SVGs in designs to provide resolution-independent images
- Create and use CSS custom properties, making use of new CSS functions including 'clamp', 'min', and 'max'
- Add validation and interface elements to HTML forms
- Enhance interface elements with filters, shadows, and animations
Are you a full-stack or back-end developer who needs to improve their front-end skills? Perhaps you work on the front-end and you need a definitive overview of all modern HTML and CSS has to offer? Maybe you have done a little website building but you need a deep understanding of responsive web designs and how to achieve them? This is the book for you! All you need to take advantage of this book is a working understanding of HTML and CSS. No JavaScript knowledge is needed.
- The Essentials of Responsive Web Design
- Writing HTML Markup
- Media Queries and Container Queries
- Fluid Layout and Flexbox
- Layout with CSS Grid
- CSS Selectors, Typography, and More
- CSS Colour
- Stunning Aesthetics with CSS
- Responsive Images
- SVG
- Transitions, Transformations, and Animations
- Custom Properties and CSS Functions
- Forms
- Cutting-Edge CSS Features
- Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice
