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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition Design interactive websites to improve user experience by using the popular JavaScript library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783284535
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Natalie Maclees Natalie Maclees
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Preface 1. Designer, Meet jQuery FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Links 3. Making a Better FAQ Page 4. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu 5. Showing Content in Lightboxes 6. Creating Slideshows and Sliders 7. Working with Responsive Designs 8. Getting the Most from Images 9. Improving Typography 10. Displaying Data Beautifully 11. Reacting to Scrolling 12. Improving Forms A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Creating bold text blocks


FitText is ideal for situations where we want to resize a headline to best fit the screen size, but what if want to take this a step further and create blocks of perfectly-sized text, as shown in the following screenshot:

We could wrap bits of our headline in some <span> tags and then set individual font sizes for each one, but handling the rewrapping of the text at different font sizes would be difficult, if not impossible. That's where the fabulous SlabText plugin comes in. SlabText will automatically calculate the best places to insert line breaks and then resize the text to perfectly fill each line. Let's take a look at how it works.

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