by Ben Fhala | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: December 2015 | ISBN: 9781786469724

Ace at CSS3 Selectors to tackle the most important aspect of web designing – the power of selection About This VideoMake your web designs stand out by learning the most important aspects of CSS Selectors right from CSS1 to CSS3Get to know all the new CSS3 selectors and work with them using jQuery, both via CSS and JavaScript Discover hacks and tricks with CSS3 selectors to create powerful, interactive websitesIn DetailIf HTML is the skeleton of a web page, CSS is its flesh. To create amazing websites, web developers need to master CSS Selectors, which are the most critical things in the modern Web and form the backbone of CSS designs. Third-party tools such as jQuery are popular mainly because they allow you to select elements with ease using CSS selectors. Selectors in CSS allow designers to access HTML elements to enhance and manipulate the appearance and behavior of their web pages.Mastering CSS3 Selectors focuses on the power of CSS3 selectors and how they can be intelligently leveraged to create powerful interactive sites. This video course explores CSS selectors in depth, demonstrating how to work with them on a granular level to confidently manipulate all the elements of a web page. We'll start off the course with a quick refresher of the core CSS selectors available since CSS1 and become familiar with the Universal selector. We'll then move on to see how we can control the colors of actions and links in CSS and will get ourselves up-to-date with the changes that have taken place with them. Next we'll work with the new CSS2 and CSS3 attribute selectors and learn the basics of how to work with the lang attribute in HTML and the lang-CSS selector.As we proceed, we'll master the usage of a wide array of selector techniques and tricks, including working with dynamic content around elements, manipulating inner content, understanding structural selectors, and more.Taking an in-depth look at specific selectors within CSS3, by the end of the course you will have complete control over every element of a web page to make your site behave exactly the way you want it to.

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction to CSS Selectors
   • The Course Overview 00:01:25
   • The Universal Selector 00:04:58
   • Linking and Action Selectors 00:06:08
   • CSS2 Attribute Selectors 00:14:08
   • CSS3 Attribute Selectors 00:07:00
2. Chapter 2 : Advanced CSS Selectors
   • Localizing Your Site with Language Selectors 00:11:50
   • Working with the not CSS3 Selector 00:07:30
   • Combining Logic with combinator Selectors 00:07:33
   • Playing with the CSS3 UI Selectors 00:13:02
3. Chapter 3 : Make Your Content Dynamic
   • Adding Dynamic Content Before or after an Element 00:04:28
   • Manipulating Inner Content with Inner Content Selectors 00:04:58
   • Focusing on a Target with CSS3 00:04:30
   • Getting to Know the Structural Selectors 00:11:23
   • Comparing Between only-child and only-of-type 00:05:54