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Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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Book Image

Mastering CSS Grid

4.3 (3)
By: Pascal Thormeier

Overview of this book

CSS Grid has revolutionized web design by filling a long-existing gap in creating real, dynamic grids on the web. This book will help you grasp these CSS Grid concepts in a step-by-step way, empowering you with the knowledge and skills needed to design beautiful and responsive grid-based layouts for your web projects. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of CSS Grid by taking you through both fundamental and advanced concepts with practical exercises. You'll learn how to create responsive layouts and discover best practices for incorporating grids into any design. As you advance, you'll explore the dynamic interplay between CSS Grid and flexbox, culminating in the development of a usable responsive web project as a reference for further improvement. You'll also see how frameworks utilize CSS Grid to construct reusable components and learn to rebuild and polyfill CSS Grid for browsers that don't fully support it yet. The concluding chapters include a quick reference and cheat sheet, making this book an indispensable resource for frontend developers of all skill levels. By the end of this book, you'll have thoroughly explored all aspects of CSS Grid and gained expert-level proficiency, enabling you to craft beautiful and functional layouts for web projects of any size.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1–Working with CSS Grid
5
Part 2 – Understanding the CSS Grid Periphery
9
Part 3 – Exploring the Wider Ecosystem
12
Part 4 – A Quick Reference

Learning how Bootstrap implements grids

Bootstrap is arguably one of the most popular CSS frameworks, if not the most. Twitter released Bootstrap in 2011 to streamline its frontend development efforts and reduce friction loss and maintenance.

We can see the landing page of Bootstrap’s website in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.5 – Bootstrap’s landing page

Figure 8.5 – Bootstrap’s landing page

For this reason, Bootstrap has always been a highly opinionated framework with ready-made components, such as alert boxes, modals, and full-blown page navigations. Some components even offer JavaScript (JS) integrations with the Bootstrap libraries and with the help of jQuery. However, Bootstrap can be themed to some degree, allowing us to divert from the Bootstrap look that websites using standard Bootstrap usually have.

Apart from the user interface (UI) components, Bootstrap also offers layout options, namely a grid. When we open the Bootstrap documentation, the very first...