By Stephen Greig
Push CSS3 and your layout abilities to the limit—and beyond!
Representing an evolutionary breakthrough for CSS, CSS3 is brim-full of recent features that dramatically extend the bounds of what a styling language can do. yet lots of these new positive factors stay undocumented, making it tough to profit what they're and the way to exploit them to create the subtle websites and net apps consumers call for and clients have grown to expect.
This booklet introduces you to all of CSS3’s new and complex positive factors, and, with assistance from dozens of real-world examples and stay demos, it exhibits tips to use these positive aspects to layout awesome, fully-responsive websites and net apps.
Among different issues, you’ll learn the way to:
Use complex selectors and an array of robust new textual content tools.
Create adaptable historical past pictures, ornamental borders, and complicated patterns.
Create notable results with second and 3D transforms, transitions, and keyframe-based animations.
Take benefit of new format instruments to unravel an array of complicated format demanding situations — fast.
Vastly simplify responsive web site layout utilizing media queries and new structure modules.
Create summary and scalable shapes and icons with pseudo-elements.
Leverage preprocessors and use CSS like a programming language inside a stylesheet context.
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Jpg); -webkit-background-clip: text; color: #000; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; } 42 Part I: New Toys Text Shadow Finally, one of the more mainstream parts of the Level 3 Text Decoration module is the text-shadow property, which seems to have filtered its way through into the everyday toolkit of most web designers. Its capabilities are much broader than some might believe, though, because any number of multiple, commaseparated shadow values can be combined extremely creatively to produce some impressive effects.
The opacity and transform properties are explained in more detail in Chapters 4 and 5, respectively. Figure 1-4 The numbers grid after the number 5 button has been clicked Summary The best thing about all the selectors discussed in this chapter is that they are supported in all current versions of major browsers! However, you probably know that the phrase “current version” fades into insignificance when it comes to the old enemy—Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9 supports all the Level 3 selectors, which is great, but none of the preceding versions of IE support many of the new selectors…which isn’t so great.
This behavior may seem strange and unexpected, but there is some logic behind it. Consider the following question: when you are using the background-position property, where does your background image sit with a value of top left (or 0 0)? It sits at the top left of the padding area, not the border area, so this is why the background image in Figure 3-3 starts at that point. 50 Part I: New Toys Figure 3-3 The example on the left shows that the background image flows into the right and bottom borders but not the top or left borders.