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Mastering CSS Grid

You're reading from   Mastering CSS Grid A comprehensive and practical guide to creating beautiful layouts with CSS Grid

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614846
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pascal Thormeier Pascal Thormeier
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1–Working with CSS Grid
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Basic Rules and Structures for CSS Grid FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Introduction: What We’ll Work on and First Tasks 4. Chapter 3: Building Advanced Grid Layouts 5. Part 2 – Understanding the CSS Grid Periphery
6. Chapter 4: Understanding and Creating Responsive and Fluid Grid Layouts 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Layouts with Flexbox and CSS Grid 8. Chapter 6: Benefits of Grid Layouts and When Not to Use Them 9. Part 3 – Exploring the Wider Ecosystem
10. Chapter 7: Polyfilling CSS Grid’s Missing Features 11. Chapter 8: Grids in the Wild – How Frameworks Implement Grids 12. Part 4 – A Quick Reference
13. Chapter 9: Quick Reference and Cheat Sheet 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a polyfill for additional pseudo-classes

A feature that has not yet (at the time of writing) left the issue state on the CSSWG Drafts GitHub repository of the W3C is additional selectors for auto-filled, implicit grids. The entire issue can be found here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1943.

Understanding the idea behind nth-row and nth-col

The author of the original GitHub issue stated in 2017 that they’d like to see a :nth-row() selector. It would target all elements in a given row or pattern, similar to :nth-child(). Let’s also consider a pseudo-class called :nth-col(). It would function the same way but target columns instead.

We could, for example, give differing background colors to all elements in every odd row, or target every fifth column to attach different borders.

Why and when the polyfill may be useful

This polyfill can be especially useful to implement galleries or table-like structures on dashboards, as it eases the styling...

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