![]() ![]() When you do an align-items: center, the items occupy the entire grid. See the Pen perfectly-centered-grid-align-items by on CodePen. See the Pen perfectly-centered-flexbox by on CodePen. With Flexbox, it's done with 4 property values. Even though the order or number of elements in the flex container changes, it doesn't negatively affect the design. We can see the importance of applying flex directly to the element. You can see the Next button has moved to next line, and Download button is taking a different amount of width. See the Pen item-stretching-grid-problem by on CodePen. Introducing the 4th item will simply put it onto the next line But the same thing in the CSS Grid will behave strangely as grid-template-columns: auto 1fr auto is only made for 3 columns. In case if you want to add a Download button after the Previous image button, Flexbox will have no problem introducing a new button. See the Pen item-stretching-grid by on CodePen. ![]() If the same thing is needed to be done using CSS Grid, then See the Pen item-stretching-flexbox by on CodePen. The below codepen shows a simple way of doing it in Flexbox The idea is to allow the buttons to take as much space as they need and then whatever space is left, the image will take up that much value. This example shows some control to the image gallery where you have a button to select next or previous images from the gallery. On adding additional new buttons, they will get neatly added up to the right with a track number of 6 and give space to the title. Any additional items added will be added as new columns instead of adding as new rows. If we check the tracks here, we will see that our actual column is number one (i.e. See the Pen item-listing-flexbox by on CodePen. With Flexbox we can just give a flex: 1 and it will fit it up. See the Pen item-listing-grid by on CodePen. With grid, we make a 1 column grid and give it a grid-autoflow: column. ![]() Display a list of items with some options for each itemĪssuming that there will not always be 3 fixed buttons. This can be done with the order property in the CSS Grid, but that will be a tedious task to assign order property to each element.Ī more neat way of using a CSS Grid is that we can divide it neatly into multiple columns, by simply specifying the second column. One thing here which Flexbox can do is the row-reverse and the column-reverse which flips the row or the column. See the Pen axes-flipping-flexbox by on CodePen. With Flexbox, we can flip the flex-direction from column to row. See the Pen axes-flip-grid by on CodePen. We can change the direction of items to span from row to column. Let's have a walkthrough of different examples, I will try to show a few things that are possible in Flexbox and how you can do that using CSS Grid and few things that you can do in Flexbox that is just not possible at all in CSS Grid. For example, if you are designing something on a single axis, and then decided to split it into multiple rows, it's very simple by just adding more rows. Grid is more flexible to change the design option. But expect soon for all browsers to support it.) However in CSS Grid, not all browsers still support it (At the time of writing this blog, only Firefox supports it. One great advantage of Flexbox over CSS Grid is that they can be transitioned, meaning that if you want to animate a flex-grow value, then it's doable. All in all, once you start to do some examples, things will get pretty clear. With CSS Grid, it can get a bit hairy as you might need to get your head wrapped around things like repeat and minmax. You can check the browser support for CSS Grid and Flexbox. However, that will soon be a thing of the past, as the browser support for CSS Grid is getting equally good. People use Flexbox more because of better browser support. Saying that CSS Grid is also very good at aligning things only on the X or Y-axis. CSS Grid can be thought of as multi-dimensional where we lay things on X and Y grid. Flexbox can be considered as one-dimensional where we lay things on the X or Y-axis. In general, a CSS Grid can do everything that a Flexbox does. Are they a replacement for each other? Do they go hand in hand together? Can they be used together? Here will describe using one or the other and some examples of UI patterns that we could follow and implement in either CSS Grid or Flexbox. In this article, we are going to look into the differences between CSS Grid and Flexbox. The Flexible Box Layout Module, makes it easier to design flexible responsive layout structure without using float or positioning. The CSS Grid Layout Module offers a grid-based layout system, with rows and columns, making it easier to design web pages without having to use floats and positioning. And that can be easily achieved using CSS Grid or Flexbox. Responsive design is a must-have in web design right now. 8 min read Use case comparison between CSS Grid and Flexbox. ![]()
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