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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 5: Make Forms Great with CSS Grid

by Craig Buckler

Form design is a fundamental yet frustrating part of web design and development. Ask anyone who's ever tried to style a <select> box or align a label consistently in all browsers.

In 2016, I wrote Make Forms Fun with Flexbox which identified how several form difficulties could be solved with Flexbox. A key benefit was HTML source order consistency with the <label> always following its associated field tag in a container:

<div> <input id="name" name="name" type="text" /> <label for="name">name</label> </div> <div> <select id="experience" name="experience"><!-- options --></select> <label for="experience">experience</label> </div> <div> <input id="html" name="html" type="checkbox" /> <label ...
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