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Mastering CSS

You're reading from   Mastering CSS A guided journey through modern CSS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281585
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rich Finelli Rich Finelli
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. CSS Foundations 2. Ramping Up FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Page Layout with Floats 4. Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3 5. Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu 6. Becoming Responsive 7. Web Fonts 8. Workflow for HiDPI Devices 9. Flexbox, Part 1 10. Flexbox, Part 2 11. Wrapping Up

Chrome DevTools

Most of the CSS we have done so far has been fairly simple. Everything we did worked the first time we tried, and that doesn't always happen. Often, CSS doesn't work and I'm left wondering what I missed. Syntax highlighting in my editor, while helpful, doesn't stop me from overlooking mistakes. Usually, it's a tiny mistake that causes something not to work and it's hard to find the error and fix it. In this section, we'll simply look at how to open up DevTools. Then, we'll modify some CSS in the inspector and finally look at the console to find errors.

How to open developer tools

To open up Chrome's DevTools, all you need to do is right-click or Ctrl + click on any...

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Mastering CSS
Published in: Oct 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787281585
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