Chapter 5Getting Fancy

The look of RecipeFinder has now advanced to the latter stages. We have the layout of all elements in place, along with all the correct fonts and text sizes.

Figure 5.1 shows a screenshot of RecipeFinder after completing all the code from Chapters 1-4.

It's looking good but, compared to our original Photoshop file, there are still a few elements missing: the background gradients on the header and button elements. As mentioned earlier, we intentionally left those unfinished so we could deal with them in this chapter, which introduces some fancy effects that you’ll want to make part of your regular CSS arsenal. So let’s get to it!

Figure 5.1. A screenshot showing the current state of RecipeFinder

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