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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

by Ben Frain
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h
English
Packt Publishing
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Stunning Aesthetics with CSS

In this chapter, we are going to look at a selection of CSS capabilities for enriching your designs. Every year that passes, CSS introduces more features that enable us to do in code what was previously only possible with an image editor.

Replacing images with effects in code is usually a good thing. Not only does it tend to make things more maintainable and flexible, but it also results in less page “weight” for the end user, with images almost always producing a far greater file size than the comparable code.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How to create text shadows
  • How to create box shadows
  • How to make linear and radial gradients
  • How to make conic gradients
  • How to use multiple backgrounds
  • Using CSS background ...
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