Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fifth Edition

<p><strong>2025 Edition: Harness the power of HTML5 and CSS to create UIs that work flawlessly on mobile phones tablets desktops and everything in-between. The bestseller now with color images.</strong></p><p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><p>- Understand what responsive web design is and learn to design effective accessible and future-proof front-end applications</p><p>- Explore the newest CSS features like view transitions scroll-driven animations P3 colors and CSS functions</p><p>- Learn brand-new time-saving additions to the HTML language including dialogs and modals</p><p><strong>Book Description:</strong></p><p>Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS Fifth Edition is the very latest up-to-date version of one of the bestselling books on HTML5 and CSS. It emphasizes pragmatic application teaching the approaches needed to build websites and applications with downloadable examples.</p><p>Written in Ben's friendly and easy-to-follow style this title can be read as a complete guide or used as a reference for each topic.</p><p>If you're a backend dev looking to understand the front of the web stack and its possibilities or perhaps a frontend dev looking for a comprehensive resource on everything new in HTML and CSS to build the most efficient UIs this is the book for you. Even if you are deferring your code writing to AI this book gives you the requisite knowledge to understand the validity and efficiency of AI's output.</p><p>Among the many topics we cover approaches for better accessibility utilizing variable fonts explainers on the latest color manipulation techniques and functions in-depth coverage of bleeding-edge features such as scroll-driven animations view transitions CSS anchor positioning CSS layers container queries nesting and much more.</p><p>By the end you'll not only have a thorough understanding of responsive web design and what's possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS but also know how to best implement each technique.</p><p><strong>What You Will Learn:</strong></p><p>- Leverage color functions to mix colors and convert between color spaces</p><p>- Use media and container queries to detect touch/mouse and color preference</p><p>- Leverage HTML semantics to author accessible markup</p><p>- Use SVGs to provide resolution-independent images and learn to efficiently display them</p><p>- Create animations as items enter and leave the viewport using just CSS</p><p>- Discover CSS custom properties and make use of new CSS functions</p><p>- Add validation and interface elements to HTML forms</p><p>- Check whether the frontend code produced by AI tools is effective for your goals</p><p><strong>Who this book is for:</strong></p><p>Are you a full-stack or backend developer who needs to improve their front-end skills?</p><p>Perhaps you work on the frontend and need a definitive overview of all that modern HTML and CSS has to offer?</p><p>Maybe you have done a little website building but you need a deep understanding of responsive web designs and how to achieve them?</p><p>Perhaps you are using AI tools to produce code and want to check the output?</p><p>If any of those scenarios sound familiar this is the book for you!</p><p>All you need to take advantage of this book is a working understanding of HTML and CSS. No JavaScript knowledge is needed.</p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p>- The Essentials of Responsive Web Design</p><p>- Writing HTML Markup</p><p>- Media and Container Queries</p><p>- Fluid Layout and Flexbox</p><p>- Layout with CSS Grid</p><p>- CSS Nesting Layers Selectors and More</p><p>- Typography on the Web</p><p>- CSS Color</p><p>- Stunning Aesthetics with CSS</p><p>- Responsive Images</p><p>- SVG</p><p>- Transitions Transformations and Animations</p><p>- Custom Properties and CSS Functions</p><p>- Forms</p><p>- Cutting-Edge CSS Features</p><p>- Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice</p>