Difference between revisions of "CSS Grid"

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.grid-container {
.grid-container {
   display: grid;
   display: grid;
   grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px; // by adding and removing you values can create more or less columns
   grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px; // 3 columns of 200px
   grid-template-rows: 300px 300px; // by adding and removing values you can create more or less rows
   grid-template-rows: 300px 300px; // 2 rows of 300px
}
}
</style>
</style>

Revision as of 14:51, 2 September 2022

With CSS there are multiple ways of positioning elements such as `position: absolute` and `display: flex`. CSS grid is a really handy property to position elements on a grid layout.

This article describes the basic concepts of CSS grid and links to resources with more info on CSS grid.

CSS grid places its direct children onto a "grid". The following code create a grid of 3 columns, each column 200px wide and 2 rows of 300px height.

<div class="grid-container>
  <div>Grid item 1</div>
  <div>Grid item 2</div>
  <div>Grid item 3</div>
  <div>Grid item 4</div>
  <div>Grid item 5</div>
  <div>Grid item 6</div>
</div>

<style>
.grid-container {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px; // 3 columns of 200px
  grid-template-rows: 300px 300px; // 2 rows of 300px
}
</style>

CSS display grid with 3 columns of 200px

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