CSS Grid Layout

CSS Grid layout contains design features targeted at web application developers. The CSS grid can be used to achieve many different layouts. It excels at dividing a page into major regions, or defining the relationship in terms of size, position, and layer, between parts of a control built from HTML primitives.

Like tables, grid layout enables an author to align elements into columns and rows. However, unlike tables, grid layout doesn’t have content structure, therefore enabling a wide variety of layouts not possible in tables. For example, a grid container's child elements could position themselves so they actually overlap and layer, similar to CSS positioned elements.

Basic Example

HTML Content

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="box a">a</div>
  <div class="box b">b</div>
  <div class="box c">c</div>
  <div class="box d">d</div>
  <div class="box e">e</div>
  <div class="box f">f</div>
</div>

CSS Content

.wrapper { 
  display: grid; 
  grid-template-columns: 100px 100px 100px; 
  grid-gap: 10px; 
  background-color: #fff; 
  color: #444; 
} 

.box { 
  background-color: #444; 
  color: #fff; 
  border-radius: 5px; 
  padding: 20px; 
  font-size: 150%; 
}

Reference

CSS Properties

CSS Function

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Grid Layout	Candidate Recommendation	Initial definition.