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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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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

Icon fonts

In this section, we'll look at how we can add an icon font to our website. Icon fonts work nicely when you have solid, colored icons that are used on your site. Instead of having every image as a separate request, all icons are part of one request for the entire font—this is faster. Since we're not using images, we can use CSS to provide the color and size of the image, meaning we can make the icons larger without losing fidelity. We'll showcase our icon fonts in the footer. So first, we'll have to build the footer for both pages, then we'll download a free icon font from the ZURB Foundation. Next, we'll use CSS to add the icon fonts to our website. Last, we'll add a :hover state to the icons to experiment with how we can use CSS to change their appearance.

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