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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242712
Pages 498 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section I: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
2. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design 3. Writing HTML Markup 4. Media Queries and Container Queries 5. Fluid Layout and Flexbox 6. Layout with CSS Grid 7. Section II: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
8. CSS Selectors, Typography, and More 9. CSS Color 10. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS 11. Responsive Images 12. SVG 13. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 14. Custom Properties and CSS Functions 15. Forms 16. Section III: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
17. Cutting-Edge CSS Features 18. Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

HSL color

Besides RGB, CSS also allows us to declare color values as Hue, Saturation, and Lightness (HSL).

HSL isn’t the same as HSB! Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (HSB) value shown in the color picker of image editing applications such as Photoshop is the same as HSL—it isn’t!

What makes HSL comparatively intuitive to use is that it’s relatively simple to understand the color that will be represented, based on the values given. For example, unless you’re some sort of color-picking ninja, I’d wager you couldn’t instantly tell me what color rgb(255, 51, 204) is. Any takers? No, me neither.

However, show me the HSL value of hsl(315, 100%, 60%) and I could take a guess that it is somewhere between a magenta and a red color (it’s actually a festive pink color). How do I know this? Simple: “Young Guys Can Be Messy Rascals!” This mnemonic will help you to...

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