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Enduring CSS
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Enduring CSS

by Ben Frain
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
134 pages
2h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Dealing with State Changes in ECSS

In the last chapter we considered project organisation and how to understand and apply the ECSS class naming conventions. In this chapter we will move our focus to how ECSS deals with active interfaces and how we can facilitate style changes in a rationale and accessible manner.

The majority of web applications need to deal with states.

First let's just crystallise what we mean by states. Consider some examples:

  • A user clicks a button
  • A value in an interface is updated
  • An area of an interface is disabled
  • A widget in the interface is busy
  • An entered value exceeds allowable values
  • A section of the application starts containing live data

All these eventualities can be defined as state changes. State changes that ...

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