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CSS CSS Grid Layout Flexible Sized Grids Auto-generate Flexible Columns

Posted by Kim Dallas
Kim Dallas
11,461 Points

I am defining the grid columns

this should work. I am defining the grid template columns

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columms:repeat (auto-fit, minmax (300px, 1fr);

}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>CSS Grid Layout</title>
      <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link href="page.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="grid">
      <div>1</div>
      <div>2</div>
      <div>3</div>
      <div>4</div>
      <div>5</div>
      <div>6</div> 
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points
David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

It should work for sure, but it looks like there's just a couple of little tweaks to make to how the style declaration is written. Try this and it should be good to go 👍🏻

grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(300px, 1fr));

You can read loads more about CSS Grid over on the MDN -> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/grid-template-columns