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Responsive Design CSS tips

Fidal Mathew on November 20, 2021

Hi folks, hope you are doing well. In this post I am going to share you some tips that I personally use while making websites responsive. 1. Paddi...
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Andrei Surdu

CSS grid?

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Fidal Mathew

Thank you for mentioning. I personally don't use CSS grid a lot, cause flexbox does the trick for me.
One command I use is -
{ display : grid ;
place-items : center ;
}
To align items vertically and horizontally :)

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Andrei Surdu

You miss a lot. CSS grid min/max/fit content, etc. I recommend using it for building large layouts instead of flex.

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Fidal Mathew

Thank you for sharing. And I 100% agree that CSS Grid is more beneficial in building large layouts. 😊
I will definitely try to use CSS Grid in my future projects.

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Matthew Morete

Of course it misses a lot, it's a 5 item list, it's not trying to cover everything.
Grid isn't a 1 for 1 replacement for flexbox, plenty of situations where flex is 100% the way to go.
every-layout.dev/layouts/sidebar/ ← Something like this actually just can't be done with grid. Container queries will change that, but for the time being you've still gotta reach for flex box.
Enjoyed the article thank you! For number 5, I think you forgot to mention the value for the box-sizing property:

* { box-sizing: border-box; }

It really should have been the default value! The current default content-box is definitely more confusing and only very occasionally what you actually want.

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Fidal Mathew

Thank you for your valuable suggestion, really appreciate it!!
I will definitely add { box-sizing: border-box; } ,
thank you for pointing it out 😊 and totally agree with the content-box problem.

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Andrei Surdu

Matthew Morete, maybe I got misunderstood, but I actually meant that CSS Grid is good to use instead of flex, but not for everything. In fact, it's recommended to use a combination of both. Where each of them fits better. The main point is to not ignore the CSS grid completely.

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Thomas Junkツ • Edited

good to use instead of flex

Why not combine both?

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Fidal Mathew • Edited

Combine both? Could you give an example?

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Fidal Mathew

Got it! Thanks for sharing:)

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Justin Praßl

didnt know about place-items center, love grid and flex, if I knew them when I started with css, it wouldve been much easier :D taught a trainee html and css in the past few weeks, she built a shop page within just a few days with help of flex and grid.
they are just time safers and let you build uis more efficient. I always align items center h/v using df, jcc and aic. the place-items will safe me 1 css property in the future :D

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Fidal Mathew

Glad to help!😄 I too use jcc and aic a lot!

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Tom • Edited

And did you know you don't need Grid for that? This works just the same:

display: flex;
place-items: center;
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and since display: flex; has wider support than display: grid; then I would stick with Flex. Use Grid when you actually need it!

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Fidal Mathew

I just checked own my own, using display: grid; it aligns vertically and horizontally (exactly at the center of div). And using display: flex; it does something weird.(like if the flex-direction is row(by default), then it will align center column wise )

Try it out :) , you will understand better.

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Tom

Flex also aligns vertically and horizontally :)

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Fidal Mathew

🤔

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Tom • Edited

Sorry @fidalmathew , I was wrong. Flex does require at least 2 properties set to align any number of items both vertically and horizontally and by default it will make a row of multiple items. Grid requires only 1 property. With 1 element to place both place-items and place-content do the same thing. With multiple items Grid will make a column, but it's place-content that does better job overall than place-items:

display: grid;

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Fidal Mathew

No need to be sorry :), it was just your point. Thanks for sharing about "place content: center", got to learn something new. 😄

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Wesam Abu Taima

Also, Grid is important.

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Fidal Mathew

Yup!

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Albenis Kërqeli

use clamp() to reduce font size based on the viewport

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Fidal Mathew

Thanks, I had never heard of it before. I will surely learn about clamp() and use it in my upcoming projects.

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Spandan Sehgal

Lovely post this is .
Thanks for shring great tips !
Keep it up

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Fidal Mathew • Edited

Thank you!!
I am glad, you liked it.

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Lars Rye Jeppesen

Apple only responsive design?

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Fidal Mathew

Are you referring to one of my projects ?😅

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Lars Rye Jeppesen

It was just a joke - I was looking at the image and it showed an Apple phone, Apple tablet and an Apple laptop.

Almost like the breakpoints of the css was fitted to the Apple device groups specifically.

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Fidal Mathew

ooh lol, yeah CSS breakpoints doesn't work that way. Its a mess 😂

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Lars Rye Jeppesen

Agree.. cheers

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FurryReign

This information helped me to understand which pages and other elements of your website need to be readily available on smaller screens. best black magic specialist in India

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deptfut

I need to learn flexbox n grid

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Fidal Mathew

Good luck 👍, it will be useful for your upcoming projects :)

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Piyush Raj

Thanks a lot!

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Fidal Mathew

Glad you liked it! 😊

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kpogo

clamp()

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Fidal Mathew

Thank you! I had never heard of it before. I will surely learn about clamp() and use it in my upcoming projects.

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Fidal Mathew

Thank you!! Your comment made my day and glad you liked it, all the best for your website. 😊

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Fidal Mathew

But, as a beginner I feel its essential to use them. Also it comes in handy when there is a need to adjust font-size, image width etc :)

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Comments more helpfull than post lmao

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