Chapter 5 : Cascading Style Sheets CSS Layout Grid and Flex
Mastering CSS Layout: Flexbox, Grid, Position
- Welcome everyone to the presentation on CSS Layout: Flexbox, Grid, Position, and Essential Tags.
- CSS Layout plays a crucial role in creating visually appealing and responsive web pages.
- In this presentation, we will explore three powerful CSS layout techniques: Flexbox, Grid, and Positioning.
- Additionally, we'll cover essential CSS tags that are commonly used for layout purposes.
- Let's dive in!
Flexbox: Creating Flexible Layouts
- Flexbox is a powerful one-dimensional layout model that allows us to create flexible and dynamic layouts.
- It simplifies the process of distributing space among elements within a container.
- Key concepts include: flex containers, flex items, main axis, cross axis, and flex properties.
- With Flexbox, we can easily achieve centering, equal height columns, responsive design, and much more.
CSS Grid: Building Powerful Grid Systems
- CSS Grid is a two-dimensional layout system that enables us to create complex grid-based designs.
- It provides fine-grained control over both rows and columns, allowing us to create versatile layouts.
- Key concepts include: grid containers, grid items, rows, columns, and grid properties.
- CSS Grid is ideal for building responsive designs, aligning content, and nesting grids.
CSS Positioning: Controlling Element Placement
- CSS Positioning gives us the ability to precisely control the placement of elements on a webpage.
- It offers different position values, such as static, relative, absolute, fixed, and sticky.
- Each position value affects how an element is positioned within its parent or the viewport.
- We can use CSS Positioning to create sticky headers, overlay elements, and build complex layouts.
Essential CSS Tags for Layout
- Alongside Flexbox, Grid, and Positioning, several essential CSS tags help structure and organize our layout.
<div>
is the most commonly used container tag for grouping elements.<span>
is an inline tag that allows us to group and style inline elements.- Semantic tags like
<header>, <nav>, <main>, <section>, <article>,
and<footer>
provide structural clarity to HTML documents. <ul>
and<li>
are tags for creating unordered lists and list items, often used in navigation menus.<table>
is a tag for creating tabular data layouts.- Understanding and using these tags effectively enhances the readability and maintainability of our code.
Example
This is an example cloning this website : www.docplanner.com using CSS Grid, Flex, Position...