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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
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 Sep 30, 2020 (Updated 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 2, 2020 (Updated 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
Direct link to the article Grid for layout, flexbox for components
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Grid for layout, flexbox for components

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When should we reach for CSS grid and when should we use flexbox? Rachel Andrew wrote about this very conundrum way back in 2016:

Flexbox is essentially for laying out items in a single dimension – in a row OR

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jun 25, 2020
Direct link to the article Building a hexagonal grid using CSS grid
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Building a hexagonal grid using CSS grid

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I think of grids as arrangements of rectangles with vertical and horizontal lines running through. And they are, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still do clever things in how we place things on those grids and what we do …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jun 18, 2020
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