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CSS

Thomas Swofford
Thomas Swofford
1,399 Points
Posted by Thomas Swofford
Thomas Swofford
1,399 Points

Grids dont add up

Based on the css layouts course grids Is hould be able to use a comination of grids that add up to 12 and the sit side by side. What ever combination I use (besides grid-12) the last grid will dropbelow & to the right. Also all of the code is not in the downloads and the ask a question link does not work.

1 Answer

robinbehroozi
robinbehroozi
15,912 Points

Hi Thomas,

I was having trouble with building grids too. After a few searches, I found a good resource about them.

Here's the link http://designshack.net/articles/css/rolling-your-own-grid-layouts-on-the-fly-without-a-framework/

They build a grid with 4 columns and 3 margins. They make each column a width of 22% and each margin-right a width of 4%. They also set the last margin-right to 0.

They use a special calculator to figure out the width of the columns and margins. You could probably put in as many columns and margins as you want. It's not exactly an explanation of the grid system they teach here, more of a simpler grid system which is easier to learn.

Hope that helps!