It is fairly easy to create a Chessboard using just CSS Grid. With a CSS grid, you can create a grid-based layout pretty much like an actual chess board.
In this article, we would use only HTML and CSS to create a chessboard.
Step1: Define the grid container.
Here, we have set the width of the container to be 800px
.
We have enabled the grid display using display: grid;
.container {
width: 800px;
display: grid;
}
Step2: Define rows and columns using fr
- fractional ratios
Here, we have defined 8 columns and 8 rows, each equal to 1 fr
.
.container {
width: 800px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr;
grid-template-rows: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr;
}
Step3: Define classes for alternating boxes.
Now, we can define the height and width of each box.
As the container width was 800px
, we can create each box of 800/8=100px
each.
Note that the chessboard grid is 8x8.
.white {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
background-color: black;
}
.black {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
background-color: white;
}
Here is the complete code:
Wrapping up
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