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CSS in Depth in Motion
By mastering CSS, you can make your pages more attractive, your code more readable, and your life as a web developer easier. You’ll be amazed what you can do without resorting to an external framework, modern CSS can handle a dizzying array of styles and effects all on its own, and this liveVideo course gets you there.
Table of Contents detailed table of contents
Cascade, specificity, and inheritance
Introduction to the course
The cascade, origin, and scope
Specificity and order
Inheritance, initial, shorthand properties
Working with relative units
The end of the pixel perfect web
Element relative units: rems and ems
Page relative units: viewport related units
CSS properties
Mastering the box model
Element width
Element height
Element margins
Spacing elements within a container
Making sense of floats
The purpose of floats
Collapsing containers and the clearfix
Block formatting
Grid systems
Flexbox
Introducing flexbox
Flexbox direction
Other flexbox properties
Grid
The web layout of the near future
Grid layout with flexbox
Alternative syntaxes
Positioning and stacking
Fixed positioning
Absolute positioning
Relative positioning
Stacking contexts and z-index
Responsive design
Mobile first
Media queries
Fluid layout
Responsive images
About the subject
CSS in one cornerstone of web design, and one of the primary reasons the good-looking websites you love look good. CSS lets you specify the visual design of a web page or web app, from the general layout to the fine details of each element.About the video
CSS in Depth in Motion is a new liveVideo course that lives up to its name, taking you deep into what you can accomplish with CSS. Designed as a companion to our bestselling book, CSS in Depth. This course explores new examples, projects, and skills that you can practice in your own time, step-by-step!
Professional technical writer Chris Ward brings CSS to life, sharing his years of experience with you face-to-face. Chris guides you through each example, breaking down concepts and letting you see just how easy it is to use CSS to achieve layouts and effects. You’ll broaden your horizons when it comes to maintaining different styles, work with flexible units, and create page layouts that look and feel fresh to everyone who visits them. The course includes crisp, engaging segments on implementing responsive design and understanding floats, certain to get you working better and faster with CSS than you ever thought possible.
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