Design Systems and CSS Grid

Stuart Robson uses CSS Grid for what it’s meant to be used for: creating a grid. He evens creates a faux subgrid by leveraging calc() to define the two margin-columns.

.container {
    grid-template-columns:
    [full-start]
      minmax(calc(calc(100% - 1008px) / 2), 1fr)
        [main-start]
          repeat(14, [col-start] 1fr)
        [main-end]
      minmax(calc(calc(100% - 1008px) / 2), 1fr)
    [full-end];
}

Add in some media queries to cater for other screen dimensions and you have an elegant grid system 🙂

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