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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

Fluid grids

In this section, we'll discuss the first of the three main components of responsive web design, the fluid grid, or a percentage-based layout. We'll look at converting a fixed width layout into a fluid grid, and to do this, you'll need to learn the formula for converting pixels into percentages.

Converting pixels to percentages

Right now, we have a fixed width layout, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you shrink the browser, you can see how it breaks down into smaller sizes, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a fluid grid is the first step in fixing this. The goal is to convert all our pixel-based widths, as well as left and right margins and left and right padding, into percentages...

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