Whether you are a beginner, or experienced developer who needs a CSS refresher, Modern CSS is the book for you. Joe Attardi, my former colleague has done an excellent job teaching every concept accompanied by code examples and screenshots.
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About the book
A lot of developers are intimidated by CSS. While it is true that CSS is a complicated topic, we can approach it step by step and gain mastery over it.
This book is a tour of modern CSS. It starts with the basic, fundamental concepts like the box model, specificity, selectors, colors, and units. Once you have a solid foundation, we move on to basic styling – text, backgrounds, borders, sizing, and more. As this book is about modern CSS, we will also cover transitions and animations. Finally, we will also cover CSS layout topics – floats, Flexbox, and CSS Grid.
Every concept is accompanied by code examples, and a screenshot of how the example is rendered in a browser.
Modern CSS is aimed at beginners, or experienced developers who need a CSS refresher.
As the title implies, we will be focusing on CSS features supported by modern browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. Some of the topics covered in this book will not work with Internet Explorer.
Topics covered include:
- box model
- specificity
- selectors
- units
- colors
- inline vs block elements
- backgrounds
- gradients
- shadows
- borders
- text and fonts
- layout
- positioning
- transforms
- transitions
- animations
- floats
- responsive design
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid