A new approach to container and wrapper classes
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2023-11-09

The wrapper or container is probably the most common design pattern around, but after coming across an article by Stephanie Eckles looking at how we can use a grid to emulate a container, and have simple breakouts — https://smolcss.dev/#smol-breakout-grid — I had an idea of how we could do this to completely drop the idea of containers, and then had my idea validated when I found an article by Ryan Mulligan — https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout-breakouts/ — exploring that same idea! 

So in this video, I take a look at how we can set it all up. I won’t lie, it’s a little complex, but I think the payoff is worth it, and I’d also love to know what you think!

🔗 Links

✅ Finished code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/ExrZrrw
✅ Steph’s SmolCSS Breakout: https://smolcss.dev/#smol-breakout-grid
✅ Ryan’s Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid: https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout-breakouts/
✅ Steph’s newsletter: https://thinkdobecreate.com/newsletter/
✅ Getting started with CSS grid: https://youtu.be/rg7Fvvl3taU

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - What we could have instead
02:35 - Inspiration for this idea
03:45 - Setting up the grid with named lines
06:30 - Adding a breakout to the grid
08:45 - Adding a full-width to the grid
14:42 - Improving the column sizes

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