The Ultimate CSS Grid Cheat Sheet in 2021πŸŽ–οΈ

Written by joyshaheb | Published 2021/03/14
Tech Story Tags: css | css3 | css-grid | learning-css | grid-layout | html-css | web-development | webdev

TLDR The Ultimate CSS Grid Cheat Sheet of everything you can do with Grid to get started in 2021. Joy Shaheb Front end Developer, Youtuber and K-pop fan, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is the front-end developer of the world's most popular web-designers. She has created a Cheat Sheat Sheet to help you understand how to use CSS Grid in your web-work. The Ultimate CSW Cheat sheet will be published in the U.S.via the TL;DR App

Let's refresh Our CSS Grid Memory. Here's a Cheat Sheet of everything you can do with Grid to get started in 2021!πŸŽ–οΈ

Check Out The YouTube Tutorial Here

Grid Architecture

grid-template-columns

This is used to define the Number & Width of columns. You can either individually set the width of each column, or set a uniform width for all columns using "repeat()" function.

grid-template-rows

This is used to define the Number & Height of rows. You can either individually set the height of each row, or set a uniform height for all rows using "repeat()" function.

grid-template-areas

This is used to specify the amount of space a grid cell should carry in terms of column & row across the parent container. Life's quite easier with this as it allows us to see visually what we're doing.


Call it, the blueprint(template) of our layoutπŸ‘‡


column-gap

This property is used to place gap between Columns inside the grid πŸ‘‡


row-gap

This property is used to place gap between Rows inside the grid πŸ‘‡


justify-items

This is used to position grid-items (children) inside the grid container along the X-Axis[Main Axis]. The 4 values are πŸ‘‡

align-items

This is used to position grid-items (children) inside grid container along the Y-Axis[Cross Axis]. The 4 values are πŸ‘‡


justify-content

This is used to position our grid [Basically everything] inside grid container along the X-Axis[Main Axis]. The 7 values are πŸ‘‡


align-content

This is used to position our grid [Basically everything] inside the grid container along the Y-Axis[Cross Axis]. The 7 values are πŸ‘‡

Children Properties

The Grid Scale

grid-column : start/end

THESE 2 properties are used to join multiple COLUMNS together. It is a shorthand of grid-column-start & grid-column-end Skip to this topic on the video above if you're confused using the timestamps.

grid-row : start/end

THESE 2 properties are used to join multiple ROWS together. It is a shorthand of grid-row-start & grid-row-end

grid-area

At first, we need to setup grid-template-areas ☝️ Once done, we have to specify the names used in parent class inside the children classes, like thisπŸ‘‡

Specifying grid-template-areas inside parent container πŸ‘‡
Specifying the names used in parent container inside children classes with grid-areasπŸ‘‡


Justify-self

This is used to position 1 individual grid-item (children) inside grid container along the X-Axis[Main Axis]. The 4 values are πŸ‘‡


align-self

This is used to position 1 individual grid-item (children) inside grid container along the Y-Axis[Cross Axis]. The 4 values are πŸ‘‡

Short Hands


place-content


place-items


place-self


grid-template


gap/grid-gap


Article Credits


Conclusion

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Written by joyshaheb | Front end Developer πŸ”₯ || Youtuber 🎬|| Blogger ✍|| K-pop fan ❀️️based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/03/14