It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Michelle Barker notes that it’s been a heck of a week for us CSS layout nerds.
gap for display: flex, which is great, and now Chrome is getting that too.
Ain’t nothing wrong with max-width, but Ethan makes a point in the last sentence:
Rather than simply defaulting to
max-widthas a constraint, I can use the empty space around my design, and treat it as a layout tool.
If the space “around” your grid is actually part of the grid, it’s easier to use. Maybe you’d decide to scootch some author information up there after all, or show an ad, or who knows what. It will be more … Read article “Constrained CSS grids without `max-width`”
Let’s build a literal grid of squares, and we’ll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo grid before. You can probably already picture it: an area of a site that lists the donors, sponsors, or that is showing off all the big fancy companies that use some product. Putting the logos into squares is a decent way of handling it, as it forces some clean structure … Read article “A Grid of Logos in Squares”
Using CSS grid to make a grid, is, well, the whole point. But what if you want all those grid items to maintain an aspect ratio, like a 1:1 square? It’s possible, but it involves a little trickery. In this video, we’ll look at doing that because we want to put a logo, centered, in each square.
One of the final demos:
CodePen Embed Fallback… Read article “#179: A Grid of Squares”
CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout examples. What we’re going to do here is a reverse approach to show you the smallest possible set of grid properties you need to know to meet most of your layout needs.… Read article “4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs”
It’s not every day you can feel CSS be slow at something. Reddit user jgbbrd discovered nesting grid containers that all have 100% height can cause many-seconds of rendering delay. Probably not something you’ll ever have to worry about, but still, interesting. From the comments:
100vh instead.
I was recently working on a modern take of the blogroll. The idea was to offer readers a selection of latest posts from those blogs in a magazine-style layout, instead of just popping a list of our favorite blogs in the sidebar.
The easy part was grabbing a list of posts with excerpts from our favorite RSS feeds. For that, we used a WordPress plugin, Feedzy lite, which can aggregate multiple feeds into a single time-ordered list — perfect … Read article “Responsive Grid Magazine Layout in Just 20 Lines of CSS”
Let’s say we’re working on the homepage of a news website. You’re probably used to seeing some card-based content in a grid layout, right? Here’s a classic example, The New York Times:
Yeah, something like that.… Read article “The Auto-Flowing Powers of Grid’s Dense Keyword”
If you want to create fantastic and unique visual experiences on the web, you will eventually need two elements to overlap or exist in the same place. You may even just need them to be positioned near or next to each other. Let’s go over two different ways to accomplish this, one with the position property and one with CSS Grid.… Read article “How to Stack Elements in CSS”
Many popular resume designs are making the most of the available page space by laying sections out in a grid shape. Let’s use CSS Grid to create a layout that looks great when printed and at different screen sizes. That way, we can use the resume online and offline, which might come in handy during the new year!… Read article “New Year, New Job? Let’s Make a Grid-Powered Resume!”
