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.