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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

Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3

Having CSS that is modular and reusable makes it organized and concise, thereby avoiding situations where you may feel like pulling your hair out. Wouldn't it be awesome to just add the class of .button to an anchor element, no matter where that anchor element is in your markup, and have it transform into a button? CSS is "reusable" if you're able to use its classes anywhere and don't need these classes to be qualified by parent elements as long descendant selectors. The term "modular" refers to the ability to add variations to the button by adding another class to it so that one element can have two classes that could come together to form something very different.

A good example of how to write modular and reusable CSS is this: creating buttons. However, this concept should be applied...

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