Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS Zoe Mickley Gillenwater ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0321553845, 9780321553843
Publisher: New Riders Press
Page: 337

In recent memory, creating a 'liquid layout' that expands with the page hasn't been quite as popular as creating fixed width layouts; page designs that are a fixed number of For our purposes, we're primarily interested in the min-width media feature, which allows us to apply specific CSS styles if the browser window drops below a particular width that we can specify. Posted by admin on 29 August, 2011. Flexible Grid Now with the advent of HTML5 and CSS3 we came up to amazingly scalable layouts. A simple css framework centered around the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout effortlessly. Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS. These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. Responsive web design offers an alternative. The first key idea behind responsive design is the usage of what's known as a fluid grid. Creating responsive designs is more than just about making things "elastic" or allowing things to "not overflow" it is about making the website look good in any browser. Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design. It's a more unified, more holistic . Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size. By marrying fluid, grid-based layouts and CSS3 media queries, we can create one design, that, well, responds to the shape of the display rendering it. This item was filled under [ downloads ].