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Mastering Responsive Web Design

Mastering Responsive Web Design

By : Zea
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Mastering Responsive Web Design

Mastering Responsive Web Design

3.9 (10)
By: Zea

Overview of this book

Building powerful and accessible websites and apps using HTML5 and CSS3 is a must if we want to create memorable experiences for our users. In the ever-changing world of web design and development, being proficient in responsive web design is no longer an option: it is mandatory. Each chapter will take you one step closer to becoming an expert in RWD. Right from the start your skills will be pushed as we introduce you to the power of Sass, the CSS preprocessor, to increase the speed of writing repetitive CSS tasks. We’ll then use simple but meaningful HTML examples, and add ARIA roles to increase accessibility. We’ll also cover when desktop-first or mobile-first approaches are ideal, and strategies to implement a mobile-first approach in your HTML builds. After this we will learn how to use an easily scalable CSS grid or, if you prefer, how to use Flexbox instead. We also cover how to implement images and video in both responsive and responsible ways. Finally, we build a solid and elegant typographic scale, and make sure your messages and communications display correctly with responsive emails.
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Retrofitting with AWD


Unlike RWD where the widths are fluid and elastic (ems and percentages), hence the term relative units, in AWD, the widths are fixed (pixels). Hence, we use the term absolute units and elements will snap to these fixed widths when we resize our browser window.

In AWD, we use pixels for practically every width, even our media queries.

Creating the styles.scss file

The first thing we're going to do in the styles.scss file is to import the partial _980gs.scss file:

//Retrofitting with Adaptive Web Design
@import "980gs";

Then, we're going to include our simple desktop-first mixin to handle the media queries. However, remember I mentioned before how this is mixin is scalable and we could make it compile pixel-based values if we wanted to? All we need to do is remove the value /16+em from the division $media/16+em:

//Retrofitting with Adaptive Web Design
@import "980gs";

//Desktop-first Media Query Mixin
@mixin forSmallScreens($media) {
    @media (max-width: $media) { @content...

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