Introduction to CSS Grid Layout
CSS Grid is a modern and most powerful layout technique which is available in CSS that allows designing a web page using a grid-based layout system. CSS grid is a two-dimensional system as compared to other design elements like using flexbox. CSS grid layout helps web developers in the alignment of web elements according to needs and the elements can be divided into different regions with relationships such as size, layer, position, etc. Doing some changes in the Grid layout system won’t affect the other elements. CSS grid layout system is different from CSS frameworks available and it allows web developers more freedom in terms of design.
CSS Grid Layout Properties
Given below are the Layout Properties:
1. Grid Container: display property
For making the grid we define a grid-container which is a parent and all the elements in it are grid-child.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
CSS Grid Layout
</title>
<style>
.all-display{
border : #81D4FA 2px solid;
background-color : #03a9f400;
text-align : left;
padding-left : 20px;
height :400px;
width : 95%;
}
.heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
width: 95%;
}
.parent {
display: grid;
}
.child {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-top: 4px;
width: 95%;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "all-display">
<div class = "heading">
<h2> CSS Grid Layout </h2>
</div>
<div class = "parent">
<div class = "child"> 1 </div>
<div class = "child"> 2 </div>
<div class = "child"> 3 </div>
<div class = "child"> 4 </div>
<div class = "child"> 5 </div>
<div class = "child"> 6 </div>
<div class = "child"> 7 </div>
<div class = "child"> 8 </div>
<div class = "child"> 9 </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output:
The parent element here is defined with display : grid property. This will set the grid to the block level. This property is must while defining grid layout. All the child elements in grid container will automatically be treated as grid childs.
display : inline-grid
This property value will set the grid elements inline-level.
Output with inline-grid:
2. Grid Container: grid-template-columns
This property will divide the grid layout into based out of columns. The number of values supplied will decide a number of columns.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
CSS Grid Layout
</title>
<style>
.all-display{
border : #81D4FA 2px solid;
background-color : #03a9f400;
text-align : left;
padding-left : 20px;
height : 260px;
width : 95%;
}
.heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
width: 95%;
}
.parent {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: auto auto;
}
.child {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-top: 4px;
width: 95%;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "all-display">
<div class = "heading">
<h2> CSS Grid Layout </h2>
</div>
<div class = "parent">
<div class = "child"> 1 </div>
<div class = "child"> 2 </div>
<div class = "child"> 3 </div>
<div class = "child"> 4 </div>
<div class = "child"> 5 </div>
<div class = "child"> 6 </div>
<div class = "child"> 7 </div>
<div class = "child"> 8 </div>
<div class = "child"> 9 </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Here, we have divided grid-child into two columns.
3. Grid Container: grid-template-rows
Similar to columns, this property will divide grid elements into rows. We can specify the size of each grid.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
CSS Grid Layout
</title>
<style>
.all-display{
border : #81D4FA 2px solid;
background-color : #03a9f400;
text-align : left;
padding-left : 20px;
height : 300px;
width : 95%;
}
.heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
width: 95%;
}
.parent {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: auto auto;
grid-template-rows: 40px 30px 50px auto 70px;
}
.child {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-top: 4px;
width: 95%;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "all-display">
<div class = "heading">
<h2> CSS Grid Layout </h2>
</div>
<div class = "parent">
<div class = "child"> 1 </div>
<div class = "child"> 2 </div>
<div class = "child"> 3 </div>
<div class = "child"> 4 </div>
<div class = "child"> 5 </div>
<div class = "child"> 6 </div>
<div class = "child"> 7 </div>
<div class = "child"> 8</div>
<div class = "child"> 9 </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output:
4. Grid Container: grid-gap
- grid-column-gap: sets the value of gap between columns.
- grid-row-gap: sets the value of gap between rows.
- grid-gap: sets the value of gap between both rows and columns.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
CSS Grid Layout
</title>
<style>
.all-display{
border : #81D4FA 2px solid;
background-color : #03a9f400;
text-align : left;
padding-left : 20px;
height : 250px;
width : 95%;
}
.heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
width: 95%;
}
.parent {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: auto autoauto;
grid-row-gap: 5px;
grid-column-gap: 40px;
/* grid-gap: 5px 40px; //Same output*/
}
.child {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-top: 4px;
width: 85%;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: azure;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "all-display">
<div class = "heading">
<h2> CSS Grid Layout </h2>
</div>
<div class = "parent">
<div class = "child"> 1 </div>
<div class = "child"> 2 </div>
<div class = "child"> 3 </div>
<div class = "child"> 4 </div>
<div class = "child"> 5 </div>
<div class = "child"> 6 </div>
<div class = "child"> 7 </div>
<div class = "child"> 8 </div>
<div class = "child"> 9 </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output:
5. Grid Child: grid-gap
- grid-column-start: specifies start point for column of grid.
- grid-column-end: specifies end point for column of grid.
- grid-row-start: specifies start point for row of grid.
- grid-row-end: specifies end point for row of grid.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
CSS Grid Layout
</title>
<style>
.all-display{
border : #81D4FA 2px solid;
background-color : #03a9f400;
text-align : left;
padding-left : 20px;
padding-right: 15px;
height : 250px;
width : 95%;
}
.heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
width: 95%;
}
.parent {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: auto autoauto;
grid-row-gap: 5px;
grid-column-gap: 40px;
}
.parent> div {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-top: 4px;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: azure;
}
.child-1 {
grid-column-start: 1;
grid-column-end: 3;
}
.child-6 {
grid-row-start: 3;
grid-row-end: 5;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class = "all-display">
<div class = "heading">
<h2> CSS Grid Layout </h2>
</div>
<div class = "parent">
<div class = "child-1"> 1 </div>
<div class = "child-2"> 2 </div>
<div class = "child-3"> 3 </div>
<div class = "child-4"> 4 </div>
<div class = "child-5"> 5 </div>
<div class = "child-6"> 6 </div>
<div class = "child-7"> 7 </div>
<div class = "child-8"> 8 </div>
<div class = "child-9"> 9 </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Output:
Here, child-1 starts at column 1 and ends at column 3 and child-6 starts at row 3 and ends at row 5.
Conclusion
It allows us to divide the web page into a grid-based system with two-dimensional changes. It is possible to design these grids in different ways using multiple properties as we have seen.
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