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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 …
CSS Grid Playground
Visual vs. Layout Viewport Demo
The Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Grids
Grid Layout finally gives us the ability to define grids in CSS and place items into grid cells. This on its own is great, but the fact that we don’t have to specify each track and we don’t have to place every item manually makes the new module even better. Grids are flexible enough to …
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GridBugs – A Curated List of CSS Grid Interop Issues
Like Flexbugs, but then for CSS Grid Layout: Inspired by Flexbugs this list aims to be a community curated list of CSS Grid Layout bugs, incomplete implementations and interop issues. Grid shipped into browsers in a highly interoperable state, however there are a few issues – let’s document any we find here. By Rachel Andrew …
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Breaking Elements out of Their Containers in CSS
A common thing to see in a design are visuals that break out of the main content column. You most likely have already seen this kind of design over at Medium for example, where it’s common for the main visual to be full width (or “full bleed”), whilst the content remains centered. Your typical Medium …
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Aspect Ratios in CSS are a Hack
UPDATE 2020.11.30: Aspect Ratios in CSS are no longer a hack, thanks to the new aspect-ratio CSS property! Right now I’m in Amsterdam attending CSS Day (my fourth time already!). Earlier this morning Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie – yes, the inventors of CSS – were on stage reflecting on the first days of …
How the CSS minmax() Function Works
One incredibly useful new feature introduced with the CSS Grid Layout Specification is the minmax() function. This function opens the door to us being able to write much more powerful and succinct CSS by allowing us to set, as a value for a grid track, a function including both a minimum and maximum value. Using …