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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Masonry (Grid Level 3)

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS Grid Level 3 — why it’s such a cool thing and why they’ve been waiting for it for so long. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 04:33 - The spec https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/ https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1320735900343668738 06:10 - How it works masonry-auto-flow: next; It first puts all the items that are explicitly placed onto the grid. Items that you have a set start/stop value for are first put down. Then it takes the next item that it to be placed and finds a spot for it. This is different because with CSS Grid you normally have to place the next item on the next row or column. grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows can now be marked as masonry and this specifies which axis will be masonry. 09:06 - The implicit grid https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/#%23implicit-grid The implicit grid is formed in the same way as a regular grid container. However, it’s only used in the grid axis. Interesting in a column situation (see images). 13:25 - Thoughts Power tools for layout in CSS — opens up a ton of possibilities and completes the functionality we use to dream of in CSS. Links David DeSandro https://metafizzy.co/ Chris Coyier https://caniuse.com/ Isotope Flickity Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

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Get ready to stuff your face

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Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toro Loco Tolinsky.

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Welcome to Syntax.

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In this Monday, hasty treat, we're going to be cooking up something really good for you. This is CSS

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grid level three that includes CSS grid masonry. Now if those words don't mean a lot to you just wait because we're going to be

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talking about why this is such a cool thing and why we've been waiting for it for so long.

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