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Preface
CSS Master, 3rd Edition
Notice of Rights
Notice of Liability
Trademark Notice
About SitePoint
Preface
What’s Changed in This Edition?
Who Should Read This Book?
Conventions Used
Supplementary Materials
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Selectors
Types of Selectors
Combinators
Attribute Selectors
Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements
Pseudo-elements
Pseudo-classes
Conclusion
CSS Architecture and Organization
File Organization
Specificity
Choosing What to Name Things
Atomic CSS
Conclusion
Debugging and Optimization
Browser-based Developer Tools
Debugging for UI Responsiveness
Minification with CSS Optimizer
Enforcing Code Quality with stylelint
Consider a Task Runner or Build Tool
Conclusion
Custom Properties
Defining a Custom Property
Using Custom Properties
Custom Properties and the Cascade
Custom Properties and Color Palettes
Using Custom Properties and Media Queries
Using Custom Properties with JavaScript
Custom Properties and Components
Conclusion
Layouts
Display Types and Normal Flow
Floating Elements and Normal Flow
Positioning and Stacking Elements
Outside-the-box Layouts with CSS Shapes
Using CSS Multicolumn Layout
Creating Flexible Layouts with Flexbox
Creating Layouts with CSS Grid
Box Alignment and Distribution
Choosing flex or grid
Conclusion
Working with Text
Better-looking Text with @font-face
Variable Fonts
Shaping Loading Behavior with font-display
Optimizing Fonts with Subsetting and unicode-range
Writing Modes
Conclusion
Transitions and Animations
CSS Transitions
CSS Animation
Animation and Accessibility
A Note about Performance
Conclusion
Transforms
How Transforms Affect Layout
2D Transform Functions
Current Transform Matrix
Matrix Multiplication and the Matrix Functions
3D Transform Functions
Creating Depth with the perspective Property
Modifying the Point of View with perspective-origin
Preserving Three Dimensions with transform-style
Showing Both Faces with the backface-visibility Property
Conclusion
Visual Effects
Blend Modes
Filter Effects
Clipping and Masking
Conclusion
Applying CSS Conditionally
Media Queries and @media
Testing for Property Support with Feature Queries
Understanding the Cascade for @supports and @media
Conclusion
CSS and Scrolling
Dump the Jump: Smooth Internal Links with scroll-behavior
Scroll Snap
Conclusion
SVG
Vector Images versus Raster Images
Associating CSS with SVG Documents
Differences between SVG and HTML
Styling SVG Elements
Animating and Transitioning SVG CSS Properties
Using SVG with Media Queries
Conclusion
Conclusion
Nested Grids with subgrid
Creating Brick-like Layouts with masonry
Container Queries
How to Follow Changes and Additions to CSS
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