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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 subgrid

First, let’s create a polyfill for subgrid. The subgrid keyword is a possible value for both grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns. Usually, it is used with nested grids when we want to reuse the grid rows and columns of a parent element. However, it does not simply copy the entire grid definition. The subgrid keyword is meant to keep the grid intact in this element.

Understanding how subgrid is meant to work

For subgrid to have any effect, the element should span multiple rows, columns, or both, depending on which declaration uses it. For example, consider the following grid:

.grid-container {
  width: 800px;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr 100px 100px 100px;
  grid-template-rows: 100px 100px 100px 100px 100px;
  gap: 10px;
}

It consists of five columns, one occupying all remaining space, while the others have a fixed width of 100px. It also has five rows...

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