Bootstrap. Skeleton. Foundation. Front-end developers often rely on third-party frameworks to efficiently create sleek and responsive web layouts. While there are many awesome CSS frameworks available for developers to use, the time has come for the reign of the CSS Grid Layout. More commonly known as CSS Grid, it’s a two-dimensional layout system that is native to CSS and supported by most modern browsers. CSS Grid makes it easy to create a grid-based layout system that is flexible and responsive while keeping markup simple and readable without having to adhere to the rules of a framework.
If you’re unfamiliar with CSS Grid, you should check out these in-depth resources created by very knowledgeable developers:
The resources above are great guides to get you started on CSS Grid as well as to learn its more complicated and powerful features. The CSS Grid One Page Cheat Sheet below is a follow up to last year’s Flexbox One Page Cheat Sheet and similarly, its purpose is to provide a short, easy to read, and printable page that you can quickly reference when developing instead of having to search and scroll through a bunch of content on more thorough sites. We use Flexbox throughout many of our applications here at gap intelligence and since Grid and Flexbox can work together, my hope is to start using Grid in our next projects.
Time to get on the grid!
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