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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

Introducing Awesome Analytics – our gibberish analytics tool

Awesome Analytics is an HTML/CSS/JavaScript-based example website built without a JavaScript or CSS framework (but it uses a few tools to ease development as well as a few assets, such as fonts and icons).

Awesome Analytics, for now, only consists of a single page: the dashboard. An analytics dashboard is a perfect playground for our purpose. When we think of analytics tools by popular search engine companies, we first consider widgets. And often, these widgets are arranged in a grid. These widgets can be of various sizes and rarely leave gaps when they self-arrange.

Let’s look at the current layout of Awesome Analytics in the following figure.

Figure 2.1 – Awesome Analytics as it currently stands

Figure 2.1 – Awesome Analytics as it currently stands

Currently, Awesome Analytics doesn’t have any layout whatsoever. All elements stack on top of each other, which is intentional! In this chapter, we implement the grid...