www.it-ebooks.info Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 A practical guide to the usage of CSS3 – a journey through properties, tools, and techniques to better understand CSS3 Sandro Paganotti BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. 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Mohite www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Sandro Paganotti is a web developer, a Google Developers Expert in HTML5, a technical writer, and an HTML5/CSS3 teacher with a passion for Ruby and cutting-edge frontend technologies. He enjoys nding clever and pragmatic solutions to ambitious projects at Comparto Web, the company he co-founded in 2012. He's also a funding member of WEBdeBs, a local community of web enthusiasts, and a speaker at local and national conferences. I would like to thank everyone who developed the amazing libraries presented in this book, Lea Verou (also for this hint, "the rst thing you can say about CSS3 is that it doesn't actually exist"), the teams behind Sass and Compass, Faruk Ateş, Paul Irish, and everyone who contributes to Modernizr, Richard Herrera for Flexie and Jason Johnston for CSS3 PIE. Also thanks to Sara Baroni and Paolo Dusi for their amazing infographic that I used in Chapter 4, Zooming User Interface. A big thanks to Davide, Fabio, and Mattia, my partners at Comparto Web. Another big thanks to my editors at Packt Publishing for their time, patience, and wise advice and to Alessandro Cinelli "cirpo" for his useful review. A special thanks to Andrea, my father, who shot all the photos used in the projects of this book. And last, a huge thanks to Francesca for the time she spent reading my drafts, trying the projects for the book, and giving me support during my long writing Sundays. www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Berg Brandt is a well-rounded frontend engineer/web developer and a web designer with more than 12 years of experience in the Internet industry, specializing in designing, developing, and maintaining websites and web applications for different scales, markets, languages, and cultures. Nowadays, Berg is the Engineering Team Leader of one of the Common User Experiences track of the Yahoo! Publishing Platform (YPP). The YPP empowers more than 300 high-trafc websites that reach millions of users across the globe every day. Berg is one of the project founders and the main author of the YPP CSS framework, one of its key components. Angelos Evangelou is a web designer focused on creating templates. He obtained a degree in Web and Multimedia and has good knowledge of open source CMS platforms. He mainly loves to code and design websites from scratch, and as such, now focuses much of his time on template production. I would like to thank my parents and brothers. They have helped me have the condence to pursue what I enjoy. www.it-ebooks.info Andrew Wasson is a partner at Luna Design, a graphic design and web development studio in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 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Simply use your login credentials for immediate access. www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info To Francesca, my parents, and Comparto Web. www.it-ebooks.info [...]... create bar charts and pie charts with CSS3 without the need for anything other than CSS and HTML With the right polyfills we can then make these charts behave well even on older browsers [2] www.it-ebooks.info Preface What you need for this book To develop the projects provided with this book you need a text editor (for example, Sublime Text 2, Notepad ++, and so on), and a web server to run the code If... freely by Yahoo!, which basically sets all the properties to none or something equivalent Next, we ask for another stylesheet This one is from a Google service called Google Web Fonts (www.google.com/webfonts), which distributes fonts that can be embedded and used within a web page Custom web fonts are defined with a special @font-face property that contains the link to the font file the browser has... a web server, you may want to use a pre-packaged solution such as MAMP for Mac (http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/index.html) or WampServer for Windows (http://www.wampserver.com/) These packages also install PHP and MySQL, that are not required to run the projects of this book, so you can simply ignore them Once you have downloaded, installed, and started the web server, you can create the projects within... fields that are in a valid state • :invalid: It works in the opposite way, matching only fields with errors This includes empty fields with the required attribute set to true • :required: It matches only fields with the required flag, whether they're filled or not • :optional: It works with all fields the without the required flag [ 18 ] www.it-ebooks.info Chapter 1 In our case, we need to match all... moving on We used the :after pseudo-selector to get access to the location just after the element with a label class Then, with the content property, we injected the asterisk within that location If we reload the page we can verify that, now, all the labels that belong to fields with a required flag end with an asterisk Someone may point out that screen readers do not recognize this technique To find... discover how CSS3 features, such as some new pseudo-selectors, can enhance a form by adding specific styles to required fields or to valid/invalid ones Chapter 2, Shiny Buttons, will show you how to create some CSS3 enhanced buttons by using techniques such as rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, gradients, and shadows Then we animate them using the classic :hover pseudo-selector with CSS3 transitions... Internet, please provide us with the location address or website name immediately so that we can pursue a remedy Please contact us at copyright@packtpub.com with a link to the suspected pirated material We appreciate your help in protecting our authors, and our ability to bring you valuable content Questions You can contact us at questions@packtpub.com if you are having a problem with any aspect of the... and a nice feature detection library Chapter 4, Zooming User Interface, uses CSS3 transitions mixed with SVG graphics and the new :target pseudo-selector to create a fully functional zooming user interface that displays a cool infographic Chapter 5, An Image Gallery, will show you how to develop a pure CSS3 image slideshow with different transition effects such as fading, sliding and 3D rotation, and... format('truetype'), url('yourfonturl.svg') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } Google Web Fonts provides us with a stylesheet containing these statements for the fonts we choose, saving us all the trouble related to font conversion Next, let's create an empty file for our stylesheet under a css folder within the project Last but not least, we need to ensure that even older Internet Explorer browsers... varies with the size of the element, for example background-size: 10% 10%; • cover: This value scales the image (without stretching it) to cover the whole area of the element This means that part of the image may not be visible because it could get bigger than the container • contain: This value scales the image (without stretching it) to the maximum size available while keeping the whole image within . www.it-ebooks.info Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 A practical guide to the usage of CSS3 – a journey through properties,. to better understand CSS3 Sandro Paganotti BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 Copyright © 2013 Packt