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Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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Book Image

Mastering CSS Grid

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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

Quick Reference and Cheat Sheet

A wise man once told me that knowledge means knowing where it is written. People say this sentence was a quote by famous scientist Albert Einstein, but as we all know, not everything written on the internet is necessarily true. Moreover, quotes attributed to Einstein are often not by Einstein at all.

Nevertheless, the quote holds. Nobody expects a developer to know every little detail of every tool they use by heart. There is way too much to know, and knowledge is generated through research and innovation daily. We see lists of the 100 best JavaScript frameworks of 2020 – nobody expects us to know them all by heart. Instead, we should know where to find information and knowledge if necessary.

This chapter aims to be a short, precise, and helpful collection of knowledge. Whenever we need to know something, we can quickly grab these pages and read up on them, aiming to make our lives easier. Ultimately, we will know where the knowledge is...