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CSS Grid Layout: 5 Practical Projects
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CSS Grid Layout: 5 Practical Projects

by Craig Buckler, Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Giulio Mainardi, Ahmed Bouchefra, Diego Souza
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
1h 23m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 2: Redesigning a Card-based Tumblr Layout with CSS Grid

by Giulio Mainardi

In this tutorial we're going to re-implement a grid-based design concept inspired by the What're you into? Tumblr page, where the user can select a set of topics to tailor her recommended content.

The tumblr page

Only the visual design of the grid is executed, not the selection functionality, as shown in the Pen we will be building:

Live Code

See the Pen MBdNav.

The main goal is to implement the design with CSS Grid, but a fallback layout with floats is outlined in the Support section below.

Markup

Essentially, the page content consists of list of cards:

<ul class="grid"> ...
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