Articles Tagged layout

Two things that strike me often about the web are how many ways there are to go about the same thing and how many considerations go into even the most seemingly simple things.

Working with wrapper elements is definitely on both those lists. Wrappers (or containers or whatever) are so common — especially when establishing grid layouts and boundaries for the elements inside them — that it’s easy to take them for granted and reach for them without stepping back … Read article “Styling Layout Wrappers In CSS”

Snook shows off a classic design with an oversized header up top, and a content area that is “pulled up” into that header area. My mind goes to the same place:

Historically, I’ve done this with negative margins. The header has a height that adds a bunch of padding to the bottom and then the body gets a margin-top: -50px or whatever the design calls for.

If you match the margin and padding with a situation like this, it’s not … Read article “Overlapping Header with CSS Grid”

Michelle Barker notes that it’s been a heck of a week for us CSS layout nerds.

1. Firefox has long had the best DevTools for CSS Grid, but Chrome is about to catch up and go one bit better by visualizing grid line numbers and names.
2. Firefox supports gap for display: flex, which is great, and now Chrome is getting that too.
3. Firefox is trying out an idea for masonry layout.

Ahmad Shadeed covers the idea of a card component that has a fixed set of semantic HTML with some BEMy classes on it. There is a title, author, image, and tags. Then he redesigns the card into five totally different designs without touching any of the HTML just the CSS.

If this is an ah-ha moment for you, awesome! It might be worth knowing that this exact concept essentially excited an entire generation of front-end developers, in no small part … Read article “Same HTML, Different CSS”

There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance.

• Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors.
• Regular images have always had width and height presentational attributes, which have always been somewhat useful and are now really useful.
• The will-change property in

Every Layout is a new work-in-progress website and book by Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell that explains how to make common layout patterns with CSS. They describe a lot of the issues when it comes to the design of these layouts, such as responsive problems and making sure we all write maintainable code, and then they’ve provided a handy generator at the end of each article to create our own little frameworks for dealing with these things.

They also have … Read article “Every Layout”