CSS Grid
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With CSS there are multiple ways of positioning elements such as `position: absolute`, `display: flex` and `CSS Grid`. CSS grid is a really nice CSS 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". In the following HTML snippet `
` is the parent element.
<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>
We first have to set the parent element to be displayed as a grid via CSS.
<style>
.grid-container {
display: grid;
}
</style>
The following code creates 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;
grid-template-rows: 300px 300px;
}
</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