The wrapper or container is probably the most common design pattern around, but after coming across an article by Stephanie Eckles looking at how we can use a grid to emulate a container, and have simple breakouts — https://smolcss.dev/#smolbreakoutgrid — I had an idea of how we could do this to completely drop the idea of containers, and then had my idea validated when I found an article by Ryan Mulligan — https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout... — exploring that same idea!

So in this video, I take a look at how we can set it all up. I won’t lie, it’s a little complex, but I think the payoff is worth it, and I’d also love to know what you think!

Links

✅ Finished code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/Ex...
✅ Steph’s SmolCSS Breakout: https://smolcss.dev/#smolbreakoutgrid
✅ Ryan’s Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid: https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout...
✅ Steph’s newsletter: https://thinkdobecreate.com/newsletter/
✅ Getting started with CSS grid:    • Learn CSS Grid the easy way  

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:07 What we could have instead
02:35 Inspiration for this idea
03:45 Setting up the grid with named lines
06:30 Adding a breakout to the grid
08:45 Adding a fullwidth to the grid
14:42 Improving the column sizes

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