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This article describes the basic concepts of CSS grid and links to resources with more info on CSS grid. | 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. | 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. | ||
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.grid-container { | .grid-container { | ||
display: grid; | display: grid; | ||
grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px; | grid-template-columns: 200px 200px 200px; // by adding and removing you values can create more or less columns | ||
grid-template-rows: 300px 300px; // by adding and removing values you can create more or less rows | |||
} | } | ||
</style> | </style> | ||
Revision as of 14:50, 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; // by adding and removing you values can create more or less columns
grid-template-rows: 300px 300px; // by adding and removing values you can create more or less rows
}
</style>
Resources
- CSS Grid course by Wes Bos is full-on in depth course on CSS Grid
- MDN Web Docs has a good introduction to CSS Grid
- CSS Grid Garden is a fun CSS grid game
- CSS Tricks has a good reference article on CSS Grid
