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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

You're reading from   Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS Build future-proof responsive websites using the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2025
Last Updated in Oct 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837028238
Length 576 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
2. The Essentials of Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing HTML Markup 4. Media and Container Queries 5. Fluid Layout and Flexbox 6. Layout with CSS Grid 7. Core Skills for Effective Frontend Web Development
8. CSS Nesting, Layers, Selectors, and More 9. Web Typography 10. CSS Colors 11. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS 12. Responsive Images 13. SVG 14. Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 15. Custom Properties and CSS Functions 16. Forms 17. Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
18. Cutting-Edge CSS Features 19. Bonus Techniques and Parting Advice 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

CSS structural pseudo-classes

CSS gives us more power to select elements based on where they sit in the structure of the DOM. Let’s consider a common design treatment; we’re working on the navigation bar for a larger viewport and we want to have all but the last link over on the left. Historically, we would have needed to solve this problem by adding a class name to the last link so we could select it, like this:

<nav class="nav-Wrapper">
    <a href="/home" class="nav-Link">Home</a>
    <a href="/About" class="nav-Link">About</a>
    <a href="/Films" class="nav-Link">Films</a>
    <a href="/Forum" class="nav-Link">Forum</a>
    <a href="/Contact-Us" class="nav-Link nav-LinkLast">Contact Us</a>
</nav>

This in itself can be problematic. For example, sometimes, just getting a content...

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