Ahmad recently encountered an issue where a CSS Grid column grew too large: .wrapper { display: grid; grid-template-columns: [main] 1fr [aside] 16em; grid-gap: 2em; } The main column has a 1fr value. That means it will take the available space minus the sidebar and the gap. However, the minimum content size of a grid item …
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Sticky CSS Grid Items
Melanie Richards: If you’ve ever tried to put a sticky item in a grid layout and watched the item scroll away with the rest of the content, you might have come to the conclusion that position: sticky doesn’t work with CSS Grid. Fear not! It is possible to get these two layout concepts working together. …
A Calendar in Three Lines of CSS
Here’s a little CSS Grid use case where a list of days is transformed into a calendar: See the Pen Simple Calendar With CSS Grid by Calendar Tricks (@calendartricks) on CodePen. My choice for this CSS calendar tutorial is a list. Why? Because it’s the easiest way to show the amazing capabilities of CSS grid. …
A Lightweight Masonry Solution
With Masonry being specced in Grid Layout Module Level 2 – and already being implemented in Firefox – Ana Tudor looked into whipping up a lightweight fallback for browsers that don’t support it. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry is a grid layout based on columns, as popularized by Pinterest. Unlike other grid layouts, it doesn’t have …
Modern CSS grid solutions to common layout problems
Kevin Pennekamp (Vycke): With the addition of grids, we can overcome media-query fatigue. Not only make our CSS more maintainable, but they also improve the user experience. We can let CSS handle the available space. In this article, I will describe three layout implementations that can improve your (personal) website. The addition of Grid Layout …
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Simple Image Gallery with display: grid; and object-fit: cover;
On the Full Stack Belgium Slack channel, user @Brammm recently asked how to create a simple image gallery. Anyone have a favorite way of making an image grid with CSS? I’d like one of those “fancy” ones where no matter the aspect ratio of the image, they all have the same gap between them. While …
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Spacing grid/flexbox items in CSS with the gap property
The gap property for Flexbox about to land in Chromium 85. It allows you to define the size of the gutters between Grid/Flexbox children. CSS Grid brought a delightful spacing feature called grid-gap, which quickly became a popular way to put space into layouts. It was easy to fall in love with because it took …
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Combine CSS Grid and clip-path
Reminds me of Eric Meyer’s Flexible Captioned Slanted Images in which he combines Flexbox and CSS clip-path. In that implementation Eric did have to correct the margins to fix the gap between the items. With the grid implementation this looks like to be no problem.
Compound Grid Generator
Handy tool by Michelle Barker: A little tool to generate compound grids. Enter the number of columns for each of your grids, and they’ll be magically merged into a compound grid. Use the output in your grid-template-columns property when using CSS Grid for layout. Compound Grid Generator →
“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons
Twenty-five years after the web began, we finally have a real toolkit for creating layouts. Combining CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes gives us the technical ability to build layouts today without the horrible hacks and compromises of the past. In this hour-long talk captured live at An Event Apart DC 2019, …
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