Chapter 5. CSS3 – Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and New Features
In the last few years, CSS has enjoyed a raft of new features. Some enable us to animate and transform elements, others allow us to create background images, gradients, mask and filter effects, and others still allow us to bring SVG elements to life.
We will get to all those capabilities in the next few chapters. Firstly I think it will be useful to look at some of the fundamentals that have changed in CSS in the last few years: how we select elements on the page, the units we can use to style and size our elements, and how existing (and future) pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements make CSS ever more powerful. We will also look at how we can create forks in our CSS code to facilitate the features supported in different browsers.
In this chapter, we will learn the following:
The anatomy of a CSS rule (what defines a rule, declaration and property, and value pairs)
Quick and handy CSS tricks for responsive designs (multiple columns...
