Modern CSS Layout, Power and Responsibility

Layout is one of the most interesting (to me!) areas in CSS, and has come along in leaps and bounds in 2015. Flexbox is now well supported and increasingly widely used, and the forthcoming Grid Layout Module will eventually be the tool we’ve all been looking for to allow us to acheive everything we need in CSS layouts.

Rachel Andrew is an active contributor to the Grid Layout module, and has talked and written extensively about it. In this article she cautions that with great power comes great responsibility – and that we still need to be careful with our markup.

It’s also worth checking out her collection of demos, Grid by Example for examples of Grid Layout in action. (You’ll need Chrome’s experimental web features enabled for this.)

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