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Direct link to the article A Utility Class for Covering Elements
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A Utility Class for Covering Elements

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Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:

Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 26, 2020
Direct link to the article A Calendar in Three Lines of CSS
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A Calendar in Three Lines of CSS

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This article has no byline and is on a website that is even more weirdly specific than this one is, but I appreciate the trick here. A seven-column grid makes for a calendar layout pretty quick. You can let the …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 24, 2020
Direct link to the article How to Get Sticky and Full-Bleed Elements to Play Well Together
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How to Get Sticky and Full-Bleed Elements to Play Well Together

I had a unique requirement the other day: to build a layout with full-bleed elements while one element stays stuck to the top. This ended up being rather tricky to pull off so I’m documenting it here in case anyone …

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Silvestar Bistrović on Jan 14, 2021
Direct link to the article Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid
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Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid

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Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and down, you can place items across grid lines creating a staggered effect that …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Nov 18, 2020
Direct link to the article The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas
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The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas

Earlier this year I wrote a bit about autogrowing textareas and inputs. The idea was to make a <textarea> more like a <div> so it expands in height as much as it needs to in order to contain the …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 11, 2020
Direct link to the article #196: Learning Grid & Flexbox with Kyle Simpson
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#196: Learning Grid & Flexbox with Kyle Simpson

Kyle is a JavaScript guy. He knows a ton about the web, and plenty about CSS too, but isn’t as up-to-date on modern CSS layout tools like flexbox and grid. We didn’t go from 0 to 100 here, but …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 30, 2020
Direct link to the article Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator
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Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator

Layoutit Grid is an interactive open source CSS Grid generator. It lets you draw your designs and see the code as you go. You can interact with the code, add or remove track lines and drag them around to change …

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Matias Capeletto on Oct 15, 2020
Direct link to the article Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)
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Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)

Our tools for vertical alignment have gotten a lot better as of late. My early days as a website designer involved laying out 960px wide homepage designs and aligning things horizontally across a page using a 12-column grid. Media queries …

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Cathy Dutton on Oct 14, 2020
Direct link to the article How to Use CSS Grid for Sticky Headers and Footers
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How to Use CSS Grid for Sticky Headers and Footers

CSS Grid is a collection of properties designed to make layout easier than it’s ever been. Like anything, there’s a bit of a learning curve, but Grid is honestly fun to work with once you get the hang of it. …

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Adam Rackis on Sep 14, 2020
Direct link to the article A Lightweight Masonry Solution
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A Lightweight Masonry Solution

Back in May, I learned about Firefox adding masonry to CSS grid. Masonry layouts are something I’ve been wanting to do on my own from scratch for a very long time, but have never known where to start. So, naturally, …

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Ana Tudor on Aug 3, 2020
Direct link to the article Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
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Accordion Rows in CSS Grid

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I’d bet grid-template-columns is used about 10× more than grid-template-rows, but maybe everyone has just been missing out. Eric Meyer chucks a bunch of row lines onto his main site layout grid like this:

grid-template-rows: repeat(7, min-content) 1fr repeat(3, 
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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 23, 2020
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