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The CSS Working Group would like your opinion. There is a longstanding issue in both the CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox specifications. From the CSS Grid specification: Percentage margins and paddings on grid items can be resolved against either: their own axis (left/right percentages resolve against width, top/bottom resolve against height), or, the inline axis … How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items?

As part of preparing for the An Event Apart talk that I’m giving for the next few shows, I published a survey. I wanted to have some more data on how people were using CSS and how they felt about new CSS features. This post is an initial roundup of some of the things I … CSS Survey Roundup

As you might have noticed, I speak at quite a few conferences. For each event I create a page on this site linking to the slides, code and some other resources. I pull those together on my speaking page, which lists my upcoming and past events. I created the pages on this site using our … Announcing Notist

In a previous post I noted that I had become co-editor of the Multi-column layout specification over at the CSS Working Group, and last week the first publication of that specification in over six years happened, taking the spec back to Working Draft status – Working Draft of Multi-column Layout published 5 Oct 2017. Taking … Multi-column Layout Level 1 published as a Working Draft

Last week I was in Paris for the CSS Working Group face to face meeting. At the CSS WG we have two kinds of meetings. Every week there is a teleconference, which members call into. In addition we have a face to face meeting a few times each year, where as many of us as … Changes to the Grid Spec and taking on Multi-Column layout

There is an excellent list of Flexbox bugs, curated by Philip Walton and Greg Whitworth. It’s a site I’ve referred to many times while working on my own projects or writing articles. I thought it might be useful to have a similar listing of CSS Grid Layout issues as we discover them. I had this … GridBugs

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the very first Patterns Day in Brighton, the videos from the event are starting to go online and I can recommend all of them. It really was an excellent event, with a great mix of speakers on the subject. I’ve embedded the video of my talk … Perch, Patterns and Old Browsers

You won’t get far through a conversation about subgrid in CSS Grid Layout without someone suggesting that display: contents solves most of the problems anyway, so do we really need subgrid? This really isn’t the case, display: contents does indeed solve a class of problems, but these are different problems to those that subgrid would … Why display: contents is not CSS Grid Layout subgrid

In the previous article in this series we took a look at the introduction to the grid spec, and in particular why we have grid layout as well as flexbox. This time I am taking a look at the background and motivation section, which gives some examples of the sort of problems Grid aims to … Refer to the spec : background and motivation