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This was a blockbuster week for front-end developers as CSS Grid landed in the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome without a feature flag. That's right: we can now go and play with Grid in two of the most popular browsers right away.

But why is CSS Grid a big deal and why should we care?

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The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right.

That's what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It's a pretty simple pattern, but like all things web design, it can be done many ways.

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The following is a guest post by Oliver Williams. Oliver has been working with CSS grid layout and has learned quite a bit along the way. In this article he's going to hop around to different concepts that he's learned on that journey. I like this idea of learning little bite-sized chunks about grid layout, through isolated examples where possible. That makes learning the whole thing a bit less intimidating.

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I was watching Rachel Andrew talk about CSS Grid Layout yesterday at An Event Apart. Grid is amazing and the day will soon come where it's a dominant web layout tool of choice. That day isn't here yet though, as no stable browser is shipping the latest version of the spec (it's behind a flag at best).

The good news is that, as of just a few days ago, the spec is really stable and has entered "Candidate Recommendation" status. Since all browsers have been developing against the spec, it's likely that widespread non-prefixed ready-to-go support will drop in all stable browsers fairly soon.

The bad news is that it will probably do-so without subgrid support, a point that Rachel underscored well in her talk.

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object-fit and object-position are my two favourite CSS properties lately. They give developers control over the content inside an img or a video similar to the way that we can manipulate the content of a background with background-position and background-size.

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Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn't that it's difficult to do, but in that there so many different ways of doing it, depending on the situation, it's hard to know which to reach for.

So let's make it a decision tree and hopefully make it easier.

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