Get up and running with CSS Grid Layout

Place grid items on a grid using grid-column and grid-row

Specify a grid gutter size with grid-gap

Describe a grid layout using named grid lines

Refer to fractions of available space with the fr unit

Describe a grid layout using grid-template-areas

Use the minmax function to specify dynamically-sized tracks

Use the repeat function to efficiently write grid-template values

Use auto-fill and auto-fit if the number of repeated grid tracks is not to be def

Change the auto-placement behaviour of grid items with grid-auto-flow

Specify the sizes of implicitly created grid tracks

Re-order the appearance of grid items using the order property

Nest a grid within a grid

Specify grid columns, rows, and areas at once with the grid-template shorthand

Specify many grid properties at once with the grid shorthand

Build Complex Layouts with CSS Grid Layout

There’s an unfamiliar `fr` unit pertinent to CSS Grid, which allows us to specify a fractional unit of space. Let’s see how to apply it.

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[00:00] We have five boxes inside a container here. Let's set display: grid on our container. We'll make it take up all the available height. We'll make the boxes a little bit more visible. We'll set a background-color and a font-size. We'll split up our items a bit with a gutter.

[00:25] By default, all of our boxes take up the available space, so they're all equal heights. Let's say we wanted to make box a and box e smaller than the others. We'll set up some grid-template-rows. We're going to use the fr unit to tell each item how much space to take up.

[00:46] A will take up one fr unit. B, c, and d can all take up three frs. E can also take up one fr. A and e are smaller than the other boxes. This is a nice, easy way to denote that we want to use all the available space without having to rely on absolute values.

[01:06] Fr units refer to the available space. In this case, the available space is the entire vertical space. We can mix that up with values that aren't frs. For example, we could say that we want a to take up 20px, b to take up 30, and c to take up 40. Then let's say we wanted d to be a lot bigger than e. We could say 2fr 1fr.

[01:33] A, b, and c have absolute values, whereas d and e are simply taking up the available space because they have fr values. If we were to change d to 3fr, a, b, and c stayed in the same place, but d got bigger, and e moved down a bit. Fr values only affect the available space.

Refer to fractions of available space with the fr unit

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