Rachel Andrew: CSS Layout from the inside out
Channel: London Web Standards
Date: 30/11/2021

We spent years trying to get floats to give us a 12 column grid. Then flexbox came along, and it was better at making a 12 column grid. Then grid layout landed, and we celebrated by making a 12 column grid in two lines of code. However, if we stop there, we miss out on much that these new layout methods have to offer.

In this talk, discover how CSS is evolving to allow components to react to their content and immediate location in a document. We’ll look at tools you can use right now and take a compelling look at what is just around the corner with container queries.

About Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew works for Google as a technical writer, working on web.dev and the Chrome Developers site. She is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker, author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is a Member of the CSS Working Group, and can be found posting photos of her cats on Twitter as @rachelandrew.