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Mastering Responsive Web Design

You're reading from   Mastering Responsive Web Design Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550234
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Zea Ricardo Zea
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first? 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design 8. Responsive E-mails Index

Retrofitting with AWD


Unlike RWD where the widths are fluid and elastic (ems and percentages), hence the term relative units, in AWD, the widths are fixed (pixels). Hence, we use the term absolute units and elements will snap to these fixed widths when we resize our browser window.

In AWD, we use pixels for practically every width, even our media queries.

Creating the styles.scss file

The first thing we're going to do in the styles.scss file is to import the partial _980gs.scss file:

//Retrofitting with Adaptive Web Design
@import "980gs";

Then, we're going to include our simple desktop-first mixin to handle the media queries. However, remember I mentioned before how this is mixin is scalable and we could make it compile pixel-based values if we wanted to? All we need to do is remove the value /16+em from the division $media/16+em:

//Retrofitting with Adaptive Web Design
@import "980gs";

//Desktop-first Media Query Mixin
@mixin forSmallScreens($media) {
    @media (max-width: $media) { @content...
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