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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

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Understanding CSS specificity and how selectors overrule each other can alleviate a lot of frustration when using CSS. Now that we've got a better understanding of this, let's get back to our project and finish styling the buttons we have been working on. A button is incomplete unless it has a slick hover state with a smooth transition. We'll start this section by creating a hover state using the pseudo selector :hover. Then, we'll smooth it out with a transition before finally discussing when vendor prefixes are necessary.

Creating a hover state

At the moment, the buttons on our site are ghost buttons. They have no background color, a dark gray border, or dark gray text, as you can see in the...

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