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Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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Book Image

Mastering CSS Grid

4 (2)
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

Summary

We’ve now learned about advanced grid features, as well as experimental ones. We learned about the row axis and column axis, how to influence their direction and orientation, and how to align and justify grid items and the entire grid along them. We learned about implicitly defined grid areas and how to build grids dynamically, and we learned about subgrids, the content display mode, and masonry layouts. We’ve practiced most of these with Awesome Analytics.

This knowledge and practice already renders us advanced CSS Grid users and allows us to build almost any grid layout that design experts may come up with.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at arguably one of the most essential topics of layouts on the web: how to define fully responsive grid layouts with the tools we already have and with the help of media queries. We’ll also look into best practices when designing grids for multiple viewports and devices.