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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

You're reading from   Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Web pages that respond immediately to different screen sizes and devices is one of today's essentials. Packed with screenshots and examples, this book will teach you the professional approach using just HTML5 and CSS3.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693189
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with HTML5, CSS3, and Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Media Queries: Supporting Differing Viewports 3. Embracing Fluid Layouts 4. HTML5 for Responsive Designs 5. CSS3: Selectors, Typography, and Color Modes 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3 7. CSS3 Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 8. Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS3 9. Solving Cross-browser Responsive Challenges Index

With responsive designs, content should always come first


We want to retain as many features of our design across multiple platforms and viewports (rather than hiding certain parts with display: none or similar) but it's also important to consider the order in which things appear. At present, due to the order of the sidebar and main content sections of our markup, the sidebar will always want to display before the main content. It's obvious that a user with a more limited viewport should get the main content before the sidebar, otherwise they'll be seeing tangentially related content before the main content itself.

We could (and perhaps should) move our content above our navigation area, too. So that those with the smallest viewports get the content before anything else. This would certainly be the logical continuation of adhering to a "content first" maxim. However, in most instances, we'd like some navigation atop each page, so I'm happier simply swapping the order of the sidebar and content...

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