CSS3 Pushing the Limits

Push CSS3 and your design skills to the limit—and beyond!

Representing an evolutionary leap forward for CSS, CSS3 is chock-full of new capabilities that dramatically expand the boundaries of what a styling language can do. But many of those new features remain undocumented, making it difficult to learn what they are and how to use them to create the sophisticated sites and web apps clients demand and users have grown to expect.

This book introduces you to all of CSS3’s new and advanced features, and, with the help of dozens of real-world examples and live demos, it shows how to use those features to design dazzling, fully-responsive sites and web apps.

Among other things, you’ll learn how to:

• Use advanced selectors and an array of powerful new text tools
• Create adaptable background images, decorative borders, and complex patterns
• Create amazing effects with 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and keyframe-based animations
• Take advantage of new layout tools to solve an array of advanced layout challenges—fast
• Vastly simplify responsive site design using media queries and new layout modules
•  Create abstract and scalable shapes and icons with pseudo-elements
• Leverage preprocessors and use CSS like a programming language within a stylesheet context

Don’t pass up this opportunity to go beyond the basics and learn what CSS3 can really do!

Table of Contents

Part I: New Toys
Chapter 1: Advanced Selectors
Chapter 2: New Tools for Text
Chapter 3: New Tools for Backgrounds and Borders
Chapter 4: Into the Browser with CSS3 Filters and Blending Modes

Part II: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation
Chapter 5: Introducing CSS3 2D Transforms
Chapter 6: Bringing 2D Transforms to Life with Transitions
Chapter 7: A New Dimension with 3D Transforms
Chapter 8: Getting Animated

Part III: Getting to Grips with New Layout Tools
Chapter 9: Creating a Multicolumn Layout
Chapter 10: Flexible Box Layout
Chapter 11: Grid Layout, Regions, and Exclusions
Chapter 12: Going Responsive with CSS3 Media Queries

Part IV: Pushing the Limits
Chapter 13: Getting Creative with Pseudo-elements
Chapter 14: Using Preprocessors to Push CSS3 to the Limit
Chapter 15: Creating Practical Solutions Using Only CSS3
Chapter 16: The Future of CSS