CSS3 in Action

Cascading Style Sheets is the standard styling specification for the web. CSS3 is amongst the most sought-after skills learnt by designers, developers, SEOs, and other web professionals. The third and the stable version of the style language, it was introduced by The World Wide Web Consortium in 1999. Since then, some modules of CSS4 have also been introduced, but independently, not as a single release.

CSS3 goes along fairly well with the latest features of HTML5 and ES6. Most of the new features introduced in CSS3 are well-supported by popular mobile browsers, namely Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, and Firefox. It can also be used to style XML, XHTML and SVG documents.

Features of CSS3

With CSS3, several sophisticated styling strategies were introduced in Cascading Style Sheets. Almost all widely-used CSS preprocessors, including Sass, LESS, Stylus, PostCSS and styled-components support these techniques. The most trending and useful ones among them are:

Box Shadow

Using the box-shadow property, horizontal and vertical scale shadow effects can be produced for different elements.

Text Shadow

Likewise, we can also now add shadow effects to texts like paragraphs, lists, menus and headings.

Opacity

The opacity property lets you manipulate the transparency of an element from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque).

Colour Schemes

Apart from rgb(), CSS3 makes it possible to state colour preferences in HSL, HSLA and RGBA formats. The ‘A’ is nothing but the parameter of semi transparent colour.

Curved Corners

The corners of an element can be curved for a smooth contour with the different border-radius properties.

Linear Gradients

With linear gradient, you can fill backgrounds with a gradually progressing spectrum of colours along any plane.

Radial Gradients

By the same token, the radial gradient progresses the spectrum of colours in a radial fashion.

Selectors in CSS3

Instead of using classes or ids to target particular elements, now it’s much easier to use CSS selectors such as pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements, and attribute selectors.

Multiple Background Images

Using more than one background image on an element might sound a little fancy, but in situations that call for this scenario, this feature becomes quite handy.

Media Queries

Designing a responsive web layout for any device-width is now a lot easier with the help of media queries.

Another notable difference between CSS2 and CSS3 lies in their documentation structure. While CSS2 was just a single specification containing different features, CSS3 divides each feature into separate modules.

Alongside all modern features of CSS3, HTML5, ES6 and Angular, the front-end designers and developers at Sarvay Xenia utilize the best UI and UX strategies to make your web or Ionic (hybrid) mobile app progressive and interactive. Using CSS3 with its modern preprocessors like Sass, LESS and styled-components, we provide avant-garde solutions for all your requirements.