Tyler Sticka

Breaking Out With CSS Grid Layout

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/breaking-out-with-css-grid-layout/

Now that CSS Grid support in browsers is great, I will start using this nice layout presented by Tyler more than 3 years ago.

• We want to limit the width of prose content to promote readability.
• But sometimes, the reader may benefit from an element being full-width. For example, a nice photograph or a detailed chart.

You can read more about how CSS Grid works in this specific case in this other link.

• older link:
  Intrinsically Responsive CSS Grid with minmax() and min()
• newer link:
  Breaking out with CSS Grid explained

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