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Mastering CSS

Mastering CSS

By : Rich Finelli
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Mastering CSS

Mastering CSS

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By: Rich Finelli

Overview of this book

Rich Finelli trains you in CSS deep learning and shows you the techniques you need to work in the world of responsive, feature-rich web applications. Based on his bestselling Mastering CSS training video, you can now learn with Rich in this book! Rich shares with you his skills in creating advanced layouts, and the critical CSS insights you need for responsive web designs, fonts, transitions, animations, and using flexbox. Rich begins your CSS training with a review of CSS best practices, such as using a good text editor to automate your authoring and setting up a CSS baseline. You then move on to create a responsive layout making use of floats and stylable drop-down menus, with Rich guiding you toward a modular-organized approach to CSS. Your training with Rich Finelli then dives into detail about working with CSS and the best solutions to make your websites work. You'll go with him into CSS3 properties, transforms, transitions, and animations. You’ll gain his understanding of responsive web designs, web fonts, icon fonts, and the techniques used to support retina devices. Rich expands your knowledge of CSS so you can master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.
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Preface

Creating a multicolumn layout


Floats were designed to flow text around an image. However, floats are also the most common way of building a multicolumn layout. In this section, we'll look at how to float elements next to each other in order to create a page layout.

So, what we currently have in the HTML in the secondary section are three div tags with a class of column:

The following screenshot illustrates the final site. This is what we're aiming for. We want three equal columns with a small gutter or margin in between:

In our current site, columns are stacked on top of one another. Right now, we have simple rows, so we want to fix that using floats. In our final site, we want to have everything centered in the middle of the page, but right now, all of our content goes from one edge of the browser window to pretty much the opposite edge of the browser window:

Let's fix this by centering our div tags.

Centering an element

What we really need to do is to wrap the entire content in a div tag; so...

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