Things I’ve learned about CSS grid layout

With CSS Grid you can create complex web designs. It is very intuitive and very well supported by the major browsers.

Setting Up CSS Grid

It is very simple to get CSS Grid up and running.First of all I would recommend to download Firefox’s Developer Edition. Firefox has some great Dev Tools included, which makes it very easy to examine the CSS grid.Here is the markup for a container (parent) with six items (children) in it:

HTML

To turn our container div into a grid, we give it a display of grid:

CSS

.container {
display: grid;
}

But, this doesn’t do anything yet, as we haven’t defined how we want our grid to look like. It’ll position six divs on top of each other.

Defining Columns and Rows

To make it two-dimensional, we’ll need to define the columns and rows. Let’s create three columns and two rows. We’ll use the grid-template-row and grid-template-column properties.

.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px;
grid-template-rows: 100px 100px;
grid-gap: 20px;
}

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CSS Grid Layout

CSS Grid Layout allows us to construct custom grids with more flexibility and control than ever before.

Learning CSS Grid

MDN Web Docs

CSS Grid Layout excels at dividing a page into major regions or defining the relationship in terms of size, position, and layer, between parts of a control built from HTML primitives.

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Learning CSS Grid

CSS Example

.wrapper {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
  grid-gap: 10px;
  grid-auto-rows: minmax(100px, auto);
}
.one {
  grid-column: 1 / 3;
  grid-row: 1;
}
.two { 
  grid-column: 2 / 4;
  grid-row: 1 / 3;
}
.three {
  grid-column: 1;
  grid-row: 2 / 5;
}
.four {
  grid-column: 3;
  grid-row: 3;
}
.five {
  grid-column: 2;
  grid-row: 4;
}
.six {
  grid-column: 3;
  grid-row: 4;
}

CSS References

Use this CSS reference to browse an alphabetical index of all the standard CSS properties, pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements, data types, and at-rules.

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Things I’ve learned about CSS grid layout

Setting Up CSS Grid

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Defining Columns and Rows

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