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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 responsive layout best practices

It is essential to learn about best practices to get the most out of our design and create something beautiful and valuable. The following few best practices aim to support creating responsive and fluid layouts.

Prioritizing content

Some content is more important to convey a message or sell a product than others. For example, let’s look at Walmart’s product detail page again and add boxes to different parts of the content, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.9 – The Walmart product detail page with boxes around parts of the content

Figure 4.9 – The Walmart product detail page with boxes around parts of the content

We have four different kinds of content that Walmart decided to put above the fold. Being above the fold comes from the old days of newspapers and describes the placement you see on the very first page, above the center fold that hides away half of the page. On the web, being above the fold means being visible for the user on load without scrolling...