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Direct link to the article Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
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Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers

Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?

The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …

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Geoff Graham on Aug 2, 2022
Direct link to the article Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
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Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers

When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…

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Temani Afif on Aug 1, 2022
Direct link to the article In Praise of Shadows
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In Praise of Shadows

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Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay …

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Jul 12, 2022
Direct link to the article Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container
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Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container

Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.…

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Preethi on Jun 15, 2022
Direct link to the article An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size
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An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size

Within Drupal 10 core, we’re implementing a new auto-filling CSS Grid technique that I think is cool enough to share with the world.

The requirements are:

  • The user specifies a maximum number of columns. This is the auto-filling grid’s “natural”
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Mike Herchel on Feb 16, 2022
Direct link to the article Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid
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Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid

Say you’ve got a two-column CSS grid and you want one of those columns to behave like position: sticky;. There is nothing stopping you from doing that. But the default height for those two columns is going to be …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 10, 2021
Direct link to the article Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
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Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries

We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. It’s just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a part of Responsive Design and they aren’t going anywhere. Since the introduction of …

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Temani Afif on Nov 22, 2021
Direct link to the article Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid
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Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid

I love CSS Grid. I love how, with just a few lines of code, we can achieve fully responsive grid layouts, often without any media queries at all. I’m quite comfortable wrangling CSS Grid to produce interesting layouts, while keeping …

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Kev Bonett on Oct 15, 2021 (Updated on Oct 18, 2021)
Direct link to the article Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS
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Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS

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Ahmad Shadeed blogs the sentiment that we might not need to lean on position: absolute as much as we might have in the past. For one thing: stacking elements. For example, if you have a stack of elements that should …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Oct 13, 2021
Direct link to the article Embracing Asymmetrical Design
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Embracing Asymmetrical Design

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I’ll never forget one of Karen McGrane’s great lessons to the world: truncation is not a content strategy. The idea is that just clipping off text programmatically is a sledgehammer, and avoids the kind of real thinking and planning that …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 20, 2021
Direct link to the article Minding the “gap”
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Minding the “gap”

You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I …

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Patrick Brosset on Sep 16, 2021
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