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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition Build future-proof responsive websites using the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242712
Pages 498 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER
2. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design 3. Writing HTML Markup 4. Media Queries and Container Queries 5. Fluid Layout and Flexbox 6. Layout with CSS Grid 7. Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
8. CSS Selectors, Typography, and More 9. CSS Color 10. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS 11. Responsive Images 12. SVG 13. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 14. Custom Properties and CSS Functions 15. Forms 16. Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
17. Cutting-Edge CSS Features 18. Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

Cascade layers

Cascade layers exist as a high-level tool to manage the grouping, and priority, of style rules. When writing CSS, I make a point of only using classes as the styling hooks to make my changes. To exemplify, if I need to style a button, I won’t use an isolated element selector as a styling hook like this:

button {
    /* styles */
}

This is because, when using element selectors, it isn’t possible to create a specificity equality across all the selectors. As soon as I want a different style button elsewhere, I will need to create a more specific selector to override the styles I have already created. Instead, I would add a class to the button and do this:

.btn {
    /* styles */
}

If the nuance of why this is important when authoring projects is lost on you, I’d recommend reading my shorter book, Enduring CSS, free online at https://ecss.benfrain.com (or buy yourself an eBook/hardcopy).

However, there may be scenarios...

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