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Basic CSS Grid

Halimah on October 08, 2020

CSS grid is a css module used to make stuffs like these: It is used for css layouts and positioning. To a beginner, css grids comprises of uncl...

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Fahad Khan • Oct 8 '20 • Edited

Overall your article is good enough. I have learnt much more about CSS grids but now thing stucked me as your written lines are....

"The vertical arrangements of James, Peter, Paul and Jane is a COLUMN.
i.e we have 4 columns.
The horizontal arrangement of James, Charles, and Elvis;"

As I know about vertical vs horizontal views are like below picture,

Halimah • Oct 9 '20

Thanks for the observation Fahad.
Please go through that section again,
I just edited the post for better understanding.

By the way, I'm glad you learnt more on css grid 😊.

Fahad Khan • Oct 9 '20

Thankful to u

Amir • Oct 9 '20 • Edited

Nice article Halimah!
Just wanted to add a pretty cool property. As you did on the example, your 2 first rows are going to be with a height of 60px. But what is going to be the height for the upcoming rows?

For that comes into the game grid-auto-rows. With this property you can set the height of the upcoming rows in general. This will allow you to control your layout with more data that could be entered.

So, if we want all rows to be 60px height we can just remove the grid-template-rows and add grid-auto-rows: 60px;

Or if we want the 2 first with 60px and the rest to be 40px for example, we can add grid-auto-rows: 40px;

Congrats on the post :)