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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

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
Profile icon Ben Frain

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

The loading attribute

If you find yourself adding a lot of images or iframe elements to your page, consider the loading attribute. Setting this attribute to lazy means the browser will only go and fetch the item if the user scrolls it into view. This is really useful for any media you know will certainly not be visible when the page first displays, meaning the cost of loading that item is saved until it is actually needed. It’s literally as simple as adding it like this:

<img src="home-image.png" alt="A rendering of the home page" loading="lazy" />

Or, if you were adding something like a YouTube video embed, you could make the same economy like this:

<iframe
    loading="lazy"
    width="560"
    height="315"
    src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NkfMBI1tVwY"
    title="YouTube video player"
    frameborder="0"
    allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write...
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