Let’s go rapid fire and try to answer this question with quick points rather than long explanations. There are a lot of similarities between flexbox and grid, starting with the fact that they are used for layout and much more …
If you hadn’t seen it, Heydon posted a rather clever flexbox layout pattern that, in a sense, mimics what you could do with a container query by forcing an element to stack at a certain container width. I was particularly …
Masonry layout, on the web, is when items of an uneven size are laid out such that there aren’t uneven gaps. I would guess the term was coined (or at least popularized) for the web by David DeSandro because of …
Don’t miss this video by Heydon that digs into CSS layouts. It’s great how he combines fundamental knowledge, like the way elements flow, wrap, and can have margin with new layout methods like flexbox and grid (with specific examples). Of …
I remember when I first started to work with flexbox that the world looked like flexible boxes to me. It’s not that I forgot how floats, inline-block, or any other layout mechanisms work, I just found myself reaching for flexbox …
In front-end development, there are often times when I know that I don’t know something. I might know enough to know what CSS to search for, but I have absolutely no idea how to use it or what the right …
Una Kravets shows how to make layouts in CSS Grid with flexbox fallbacks for browsers that don’t support those grid properties just yet. Una writes:
…CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support users of IE11 and below,
I was talking with a pal the other day and moaning about flexbox for the millionth time because I had momentarily forgotten the difference between the justify-content and align-items properties.
“How do I center an element horizontally with flex again?” …
A fascinating little tech demo by Roman Komarov that allows for clickable table sorting entirely in CSS. It’s a combination of inline CSS custom properties, the order property, and calc().
This demo sparked a ton of conversation about accessibility, …
MDN released a comprehensive guide to Flexbox with new and updated materials by Rachel Andrew. The guide includes 11 posts demonstrating layouts, use cases and everything you could possibly want or need to know on the topic. All of the …
No. Well. Mostly No.
Grid is much newer than Flexbox and has a bit less browser support. That’s why it makes perfect sense if people are wondering if CSS grid is here to replace Flexbox.
To put a point on …
