Grid is fun!

Your layouts will never be the same again

I am Praveen

@praveenpuglia

" Your layouts will never be the same again! "

  • That's a bold claim, isn't it?
     
  • The pain of building layouts on Web
     
  • Look at the print media!

The web was simple

...and it had to be!

Table Layouts!

People wanted to port layouts from magazines to the web.

Tables weren't good enough!

  • Slow
     
  • Hard to change
     
  • Did you say semantics?
     
  • Let's add another column!

Let's Float!

Floats were amazing!

- Became CSS Expert
- Cracked the coding interview...
- Got the job!

🤑🤑🤑

Trial - 1 : Code

<header class="page-header"></header>

<article class="main">
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
</article>

<aside class="sidebar">
    Ads! 🎉
</aside>

<footer class="page-footer"></footer>
body {
  width: 960px;
  margin: auto;
}

.main {
  float: left;
  width: 600px;
}

.sidebar {
  float: left;
  width: 360px
}

Trial - 1

  • We have the content overlapping with the footer
     
  • The height of main and sidebar aren't in sync.
     
  • What if we need gutter?

 

Trial - 2 : Code

.page-footer {
  clear: both;
}
.sidebar {
  margin-left: 20px;
  width: 340px;
  min-height: 400px;
}

.main {
  min-height: 400px;
}

Trial - 2

Now we need some padding and borders!

Trial -3 : Code

.main {
  width: 572px; /* 600 - (4+4) - 20 */
  border: 4px solid;
  padding: 10px;
}

.sidebar {
  width: 312px; /* 360 - 20 - (4+4) - 20*/
  margin-left: 20px;
  border: 4px solid;
  padding: 10px;
}

Trial -3

We need "tiny" adjustments

The border is too thick. Let's make it 2px.

We gotta add more padding. 20px.

Hey! The sidebar and the main content still don't match.

F**k 😡

ooh! Responsive!

http://brolik.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BRO_ResponsiveDesign_Main2.png

Problem?

  • We still leverage markup to describe layout.
     
  • Made us less creative.
     
  • Still no CSS way! 

The Evolution

http://jensimmons.com/presentation/designing-grid

Flexbox - Layout : Code

<header class="page-header"></header>

<div class="wrapper">
  
  <article class="main">
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    ...
  </article>
  
  <aside class="sidebar">
    Ads! ;)
  </aside>

</div>

<footer class="page-footer"></footer>
.wrapper {
  display: flex;
}

.main {
  flex: 1;
}

.sidebar {
  width: 360px;
}

Flexbox - Layout

Neat! Right? Wait!

  • One dimensional
     
  • Flexbugs
     
  • Gutters?
     
  • Spanning rows?
     
  • Specs & Implementation Fragmentation

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