Название: CSS in Depth, Second Edition (MEAP v4)
Автор: Keith J. Grant
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2023
Страниц: 268
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 13.6 MB

To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth!

Go beyond the basics of CSS and discover web design techniques that range from clever to mind-blowing! This totally revised new edition of CSS in Depth expands your CSS skills with the patterns, layouts, and methods you need to deliver truly beautiful front ends.

In CSS in Depth, Second Edition you will learn how to:
Create a web page with layout methods
Develop essential website components, like dropdown menus and modal dialog boxes
Make your website fully responsive across devices
Organize your CSS for easy future maintenance
Implement designer mockups with attention to detail
Use animations to guide user focus
Avoid common CSS pitfalls

CSS in Depth has given thousands of web developers the tools and the inspiration to make sites that really pop. This second edition is packed with the latest best practices, new CSS language features, and essential advice on how to organize and maintain your CSS codebase.

about the book
CSS in Depth, Second Edition deep dives into the CSS techniques used by the world’s most skilled web developers. It builds an in-depth understanding of how CSS works the way it does, with a laser focus on essential topics like vertical centering, margin collapsing, and positioning. Inside, you’ll learn how to build and organize a modular CSS codebase so that it’s easy to understand, maintain, and reuse.

This new edition is fully revised to cover the latest additions to the CSS standard, such as cascade layers, logical properties, new color functions, subgrid, and container queries. Bottom line: this book will make you a better web designer and your apps will look fantastic!

If you happen to have years of experience with CSS, this is a book for you too! A lot of experienced developers still find the language frustrating — or maybe just have a lot to catch up on as CSS is rapidly evolving. These topics are a key focus of CSS in Depth.

This book follows a carefully planned curriculum for mastering the most essential aspects of CSS. There are countless introductory-level books to CSS, and many others that are laser focused on a specific topic. My goal is to provide something different, something that teaches you how to think in CSS, how to practically use it on real world websites and apps, and how to connect the pieces among the wide array of topics under CSS.

I’ll walk you through a deep look at the often-misunderstood fundamentals of the language. You’ll learn how to lay out an entire page numerous ways from beginning to end. I’ll provide practical advice for organizing your code and keeping it understandable and maintainable. You’ll learn how to focus on the fine details of color, typography, and various visual effects. And I’ll show you how to work with motion and transformations of elements of the page. And I’ll bring you up-to-date with the latest features of CSS — because there is a lot of new stuff to learn!

about the reader
Written for web developers who know the basics of CSS and HTML.

about the author
Keith J. Grant is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on front-end code for the Ansible Controller web application using jаvascript and CSS.