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Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid
28.6.2021
Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.
Recently, I have been experimenting with CSS Grid and alignment properties to create component layouts that …
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Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries
3.6.2021
A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping …
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DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition
14.5.2021
Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools:
Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector
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Eliminating five top compatibility pain points on the web
23.4.2021
Robert Nyman and Philip Jägenstedt:
Google is working with other browser vendors and industry partners to fix the top five browser compatibility pain points for web developers. The areas of focus are CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, position: sticky, 
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Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties
23.3.2021
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid layout holds the “tiles” that go from a filled background color to …
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Is CSS float deprecated?
12.2.2021
An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox?
The short answer
No! Well, mostly. I’d only use it today for wrapping text around …
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Bulletproof flag components
29.1.2021
A clever use of CSS grid from Jay Freestone to accomplish a particular variation of the media object design pattern (where the image is centered with the title) without any magic numbers anything that isn’t flexible and resiliant.
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The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid
27.1.2021
How to build a very common layout with CSS grid. Header on the top, footer on the bottom. Two columns, sidebar and main content. This one has navigation above the main content but within that same column.
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“I Don’t Know”
21.12.2020
I’ve learned to be more comfortable not knowing. “I don’t know”, comes easier now. “I don’t know anything about that.” It’s okay. It feels good to say.
Whether it’s service workers, Houdini, shadow DOM, web components, HTTP2, CSS grid, “micro-front ends”, AVIF… there are many paths before...
Slow Movement
16.12.2020
There was a time when I felt overwhelmed by how fast the web developed. It seemed like not a single day passed without a new plugin, framework, technique, or language feature being released. I believed that in order to survive as a freelancer and to compete with others I had to learn everything...
Representation Matters
15.12.2020
This year I had the pleasure of re-launching The Accessibility Project. I spend a lot of time researching and writing about accessibility and inclusive design, so this felt like the cumulation of a lot of that effort. The site now uses all sorts of cool web features like CSS Grid, @supports,...
Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid
1.12.2020
Rachel Andrew introducing the fact that masonry layout is going to be a thing in native CSS via CSS grid layout. The thing with masonry is that we can already do it for the most part, but there is just one thing that makes it hard: doing the vertical-staggering and having a left-to-right source...
grid-auto-flow : CSS Grid :: flex-direction : Flexbox
19.11.2020
When setting a parent element to display: flex, its child elements align left-to-right like this:
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Now, one of the neat things we can do with flexbox is change the direction so that child elements are stacked vertically on top of each other in a column. We can do that with...
Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid
19.11.2020
Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and down, you can place items across grid lines creating a staggered effect that looks pretty rad. Grid-like, but it appears to align to diagonal...
Collective #632
2.11.2020
Stories for VSCode * Copying is the way design works * Native CSS Masonry Layout In CSS Grid
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Collective #631
29.10.2020
Game Off * Next.js Commerce * Tyrus * ML Art * Curve Modifiers in Three.js * CSS Grid Level 3 draft
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Collective #629
22.10.2020
Hands-Free Coding * Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid * Responsive Height Design * SVG Favicon Maker
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Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator
15.10.2020
Layoutit Grid is an interactive open source CSS Grid generator. It lets you draw your designs and see the code as you go. You can interact with the code, add or remove track lines and drag them around to change the sizing — and you get to see the CSS and HTML change in real time!
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Collective #626
8.10.2020
With Code * CSS Grid full-bleed layout tutorial * Why Tailwind CSS * CSS Variables 101
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Recreating the “100 Days of Poetry” Effect with Shader, ScrollTrigger and CSS Grid
5.10.2020
The latest ALL YOUR HTML live coding session where you'll learn how to recreate the effect seen on the "100 Days of Poetry" website.
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