CSS Secrets

About this book

Who this book is for

The primary target audience for this book is intermediate to advanced CSS developers. By getting the introductory stuff out of the way, we can explore more advanced use cases of modern CSS features and combinations thereof. This, however, means that quite a few assumptions have been made about you, dear reader:

• I assume you know CSS 2.1 inside out, and have a few years of experience with it. You don’t struggle to understand how positioning works. You’ve used generated content to enhance your designs without extraneous markup or images. You don’t resort to plastering !important all over your code because you actually understand specificity, inheritance, and the cascade. You know what the different parts of the box model are, and you are not fazed by margin collapsing. You are familiar with the different length units and know when it’s best to use each one.

• You’ve read quite a bit about the most popular CSS3 features, online and/or in books, and have tried them out, even if only in personal projects. Even if you haven’t studied them in depth, you know how to create rounded corners, add a box-shadow, or create a linear gradient. You’ve played with some basic 2D transforms, and have enhanced interactions with basic transitions and animations.

• You have seen SVG and know what it’s used for, even if you don’t quite know how to write it yourself.

• You can read and understand basic, vanilla JavaScript, such as creating elements, manipulating their attributes, ...