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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Sikora Piotr Sikora
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foundations and Tools 2. Mastering of Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

Retina problems

Retina is the high-resolution display. The only problem with this display is how to double the device width and height and then squeeze it into the keeping container. This sounds easy. The easiest way is to move as many elements as can be moved to fonts and HTML elements/pseudoelements. But how can we deal with background images in CSS?

Let's start with the basics. For a normal screen, we need the image with standard dimensions. The image width and height are equal to 90 pixels.

HTML:

<div class="element"></div>

SASS:

.element
  background:
    image: url(img/circle-blue.png)
    repeat: no-repeat
  width: 90px
  height: 90px

Complied CSS:

.element {
    background-image: url(img/circle-blue.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    width: 90px;
    height: 90px;
}

In case we want to display this image properly on the retina display, we need to change a code. This change is related with the density of the retina display. The pixel ratio in the retina...

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