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Andy Budd and Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, 10.1007/978-1-4302-5864-3_7

7. Page Layout and Grids

Andy Budd and Emil Björklund2

(1)Brighton, UK

(2)Malmo, Sweden

This chapter is all about a systematic approach to creating page layouts. In the previous chapter, we focused on layout from the perspective of individual page components. The priority of and relationships between the individual components is a good place to start when designing the overall layout of a page. But at some point, you’ll start to find recurring patterns for the overall structure. This chapter is all about codifying these structures into reusable solutions: containers, into which you can “pour” your content.

As you create these containers, you ...

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