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CSS Grid Areas

After all these years of using CSS Grid and I still feel like I haven’t grokked everything that it’s capable of. Ahmad Shadeed’s latest interactive tutorial is a great reminder of that where he’s written about named grid areas and explains the following bit of CSS:

.layout {
  grid-template-columns:  [full-start] 1fr
                          [content-start] 2fr
                          [content-end] 1fr [full-end];
}

So what Ahmad has done here is defined and named specific areas of a grid and then he can use them elsewhere in his CSS like this:

.layout-item {
  grid-column: content-start / content-end;
}

Smart stuff.