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Layout Best Practices

CSS Grid vs Flexbox, container queries, viewport units, subgrid, and bento layouts based on MDN, CSS-Tricks, and modern CSS best practices.

Difficulty
intermediate
Read time
1 min read
Version
v1.0.0
Confidence
established
Last updated

Quick Reference

Use CSS Grid for 2D page layouts, Flexbox for 1D component alignment. Use container queries (@container) for component-level responsiveness instead of media queries. Use svh/dvh for mobile viewport issues. Use auto-fit with minmax() for responsive card grids.

Use When

  • Building page layouts
  • Creating responsive components
  • Deciding between Grid and Flexbox
  • Implementing card grids or bento layouts
  • Fixing mobile viewport issues

Skip When

  • Simple single-element styling
  • Text-only content without structure

Layout Best Practices

CSS Grid vs Flexbox, container queries, viewport units, subgrid, and bento layouts based on MDN, CSS-Tricks, and modern CSS best practices.

Tags

layout css-grid flexbox container-queries responsive subgrid bento-grid

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