Flex & Grid: A Visual Guide

Master Modern CSS Layouts

An interactive, visual-first tutorial to help you understand and master CSS Flexbox and Grid by seeing them in action.

Why Flexbox & Grid?

For years, web developers relied on hacks like floats and table layouts for page structure. These methods were fragile and unintuitive. CSS Flexbox and Grid are modern, powerful layout models that solve these old problems, giving us precise, predictable, and responsive control over our content.

Interactive Flexbox Playground

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Interactive Grid Playground

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Putting It All Together: Grid & Flexbox

A common pattern: Use Grid for the overall page or component layout, and Flexbox for the content within those components.

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Card Title One

This card's container is a Grid item. The content inside—this text and the button below—is organized with Flexbox.

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Card Title Two

Flexbox makes it easy to align items, like pushing this button to the very bottom of the card, regardless of text length.

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Card Title Three

The parent Grid container automatically adjusts the number of columns based on the available screen width.

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