Monthly Archives: July 2018

Say you declared a grid like this:

body {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: min-content 1fr;
grid-template-rows: min-content auto min-content;
}

This depends on content, for sure, but how it’s likely to play out is like this:

+---+-------------+
| | |
| | |
+-----------------+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+-----------------+
| | |
+---+-------------+

That’s really easy to draw out quick in ASCIIFlow Infinity.

Now you want …

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The CSS Paint API is extremely exciting, not only for what it is, but what it represents, which is the beginning of a very exciting time for CSS. Let’s go over what it is, why we have it and how to start using it.

What is the CSS Paint API?

The API is just one part of a whole suite of new specifications all under the umbrella of what is known as CSS Houdini. Houdini, in essence, gives developers …

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This is the third and final part in a three-part series about using CSS grid safely in Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) without going insane.

In Part 1, I covered some of the common misconceptions that people have about IE11’s native CSS grid implementation. In Part 2, I showed the world how easy it actually is to write IE-friendly CSS grid code.

Today, I’m going step away from CSS grid for a moment to show you a flexbox technique …

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