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Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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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 UIkit implements grids

UIkit describes itself as a lightweight and modular CSS framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces. UIkit is developed by the people at YOOtheme, a Hamburg-based company that specializes in developing themes for WordPress and Joomla. Since the initial release of UIkit 3 in January 2017, it has received regular updates and is currently on version 3.16, as of February 2023.

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

Figure 8.11 – UIkit’s landing page

Figure 8.11 – UIkit’s landing page

UIkit takes a drastically different approach to defining grids. Its usage of JS and attribute selectors allow us to build a grid with attributes defined on the container. To mark an element as a grid container, we apply the uk-grid attribute to the element:

<div uk-grid>
  <div>A</div>
  <div>B</div>
  <div>C</div>
  ...