I love the new layout modes in CSS. Grid and Flexbox are both amazing features. They each have their place. What if I told you that if you used the...
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Eww, I really should have worked with grid instead of flexbox in my last progressive web app. Flexbox was quite a good fit for the job until one dirty (meaning: non-obvious) trick needed to be done to make it work out completely.
Great post!
Thanks!
I like it a lot, but I'm having an immense flashback to doing table based layouts right now. I can't help it.
It can definitely feel like that!
The big thing to think about is that table-based layouts were highly dependent on markup and the "containers" of the
Grid gives us sibling html and no nesting. Spanning elements on top of those inner margins is really nice break from how tables would have been too ;)
A lot of the outward mental model feels a bit like tables, but the inner workings are really nice