6. Using CSS to Implement Icons
Icons are an essential part of creating web interfaces as familiar signposts, badges of honor, or notifications. They can draw attention to important parts of the page quickly, use less space than words, and can transcend languages. CSS3 offers some useful new tricks to the icon arena; hence, this chapter on icons. After the comparatively heavy learning curve presented by CSS Animations in Chapter 5, you can relax a bit here.
In this chapter you’ll learn some slick ways to implement icons on a web page employing cutting-edge CSS and HTML features, such as multiple background images, web fonts, and data- attributes.
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