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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398934
Pages 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design 2. Media Queries – Supporting Differing Viewports 3. Fluid Layouts and Responsive Images 4. HTML5 for Responsive Web Designs 5. CSS3 – Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and New Features 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3 7. Using SVGs for Resolution Independence 8. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 9. Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS3 10. Approaching a Responsive Web Design Index

High-resolution background images


Thanks to media queries, we have the ability to load in different background images, not just at different viewport sizes but also different viewport resolutions.

For example, here is the official way of specifying a background image for a 'normal' and a high DPI screen. You can find this in example_06-07:

.bg {
    background-image: url('bg.jpg');
}
@media (min-resolution: 1.5dppx) {
    .bg {
        background-image: url('bg@1_5x.jpg');
    }
}

The media query is written exactly as it is with width, height, or any of the other capability tests. In this example, we are defining the minimum resolution that bg@1_5x.jpg should use as 1.5dppx (device pixels per CSS pixel). We could also use dpi (dots per inch) or dpcm (dots per centimeter) units if preferable. However, despite the poorer support, I find dppx the easiest unit to think about; as 2dppx is twice the resolution, 3dppx would be three times the resolution. Thinking about that in dpi is trickier. 'Standard...

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