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Direct link to the article Bulletproof flag components
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Bulletproof flag components

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A clever use of CSS grid from Jay Freestone to accomplish a particular variation of the media object design pattern (where the image is centered with the title) without any magic numbers anything that isn’t flexible and resiliant.…

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 29, 2021
Direct link to the article The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid
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The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid

How to build a very common layout with CSS grid. Header on the top, footer on the bottom. Two columns, sidebar and main content. This one has navigation above the main content but within that same column.
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Chris Coyier on Jan 27, 2021
Direct link to the article Checkerboard Reveal
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Checkerboard Reveal

Back when I was 10, I remember my cousin visiting our house. He was (and still is) a cool kid, the kind who’d bring his own self-programmed chess game on a floppy disk. And his version of chess was …

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Geoff Graham on Jan 25, 2021
Direct link to the article You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr
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You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr

There are a lot of grids on the web like this:

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
}

My message is that what they really should be is:

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(10px, 1fr));
}
…
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Chris Coyier on Jan 22, 2021
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 Dec 4, 2020 (Updated 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
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