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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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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

Media queries

The first two foundations of responsive web design can only get you so far. The most important foundation is the media query. Media queries are basically "if" statements or conditional logic inside your CSS. For instance, if the width of the browser is less than 500 pixels, we can then apply different rule sets based on these conditions. Media queries are extremely powerful because at certain points, our website really breaks down and looks bad, and we're going to need to fix this with . In this section, we'll figure out what a media query is, and we'll use it to fix the remaining issues with the site, especially at narrower widths.

Another thing to consider is this – since we're going to shrink our browser window to kind of emulate a tablet or mobile, we won't have a lot of room to look at DevTools. You can click on the...

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