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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

By : Ben Frain
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

4.5 (57)
By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
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Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
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Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
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Index

Using @supports to fork CSS

When you’re building out a responsive web design, attempting to provide a single design that works everywhere, on every device, it’s a simple fact that you’ll frequently encounter situations when features or techniques are not supported on certain devices. It’s also a likely scenario with newer selectors, like :has(), which we looked at earlier in the chapter. In these instances, you’ll likely want to create a fork in your CSS. If the browser supports a feature, provide one chunk of code; if it doesn’t, it gets different code.

This is the kind of situation that gets handled by if/else or switch statements in JavaScript. In CSS, we use the @supports at-rule.

Now, before we dig into feature queries, it is worth pointing out a straightforward way of providing fallbacks for older browsers. Suppose we want to use some of our new viewport-related length units but ensure we have some kind of fallback for older...

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