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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

Viewport meta tag


We are just about done with our responsive site. We have everything in place, except that we haven't actually tested it on a mobile device yet. In this section, let's test our design using Chrome's mobile device simulator and then look at and try to understand the viewport meta tag.

Testing our responsive design on a mobile device

One way to test on a mobile would be this – make your site live and test on an actual phone or tablet. An easier way to do a simple test on a phone (but possibly slightly less accurate) is to use Chrome's Device Simulator. Within DevTools there is a devices icon:

Once you click on that, you'll be able to choose a phone. We can see our site, but it doesn't look similar to when we just minimized our browser window to be about the size of a phone:

What's happening is that most mobile devices are going to try and shrink your website to fit on the phone, and then if your site isn't responsive, it will look like the desktop version, only much smaller. So...

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