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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

Renaming elements — classes and IDs

Renaming elements is such a powerful feature of CSS. Let me set this up for you. So far, CSS has been good because we have been able to keep things consistent. All heading 1s are blue with a font size of 20 pixels, for instance, but what if you want your h1 to look different? That's where renaming and classifying elements really becomes useful. In this section, you're going to learn about how to rename and style elements based on classes and IDs. We'll look at how this will pay off on our shark website, first with classes, followed by IDs.

Classes

Look at the index.html file. You can see there are several HTML5 <section> tags throughout the page: one in the initial...

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Mastering CSS
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ISBN-13: 9781787281585
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