Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition: Build future-proof responsive websites using the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques

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Key Features

• There is a newer edition of this book available
• Understand what responsive web design is and its significance for modern web development
• Explore the latest developments in responsive web design and CSS, including layout with Grid and Subgrid, CSS Cascade Layers, Wide Gamut colors, and CSS Functions
• Get to grips with the uses and benefits of new HTML elements and attributes

Book Description

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.

Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition includes approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers.

The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author.

What you will learn

• 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

Who this book is for

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.

Table of Contents

1. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design
2. Writing HTML Markup
3. Media Queries and Container Queries
4. Fluid Layout and Flexbox
5. Layout with CSS Grid
6. CSS Selectors, Typography, and More
7. CSS Colour
8. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS
9. Responsive Images
10. SVG
11. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations
12. Custom Properties and CSS Functions
13. Forms
14. Cutting-Edge CSS Features
15. Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice