Frontend Mentor - Product preview card component solution

This is a solution to the Product preview card component challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for interactive elements

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: Click here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS (Custom Properties)
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

Manipulating an element using CSS custom properties was pretty exciting. I could easily change the background image for a div really easily. Custom properties are fun and can be used to solve tons of problems I could have used JavaScript to solve.

<div class="awesome"></div>

.awesome {
  --bg-img: url("path to mobile image");
  background-image: var(--bg-img);
}

@media (min-width: 760px) {
  .awesome {
    --bg-img: url("path to desktop image");
  }
}

Useful resources

• Kevin Powell - Really helped shaped my understanding in modern CSS design. I would definetely recommend him to anyone who really wants to step up their CSS game.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @MartyOfMCA
• Twitter - @martyofmca