CSSruudukkoja

CSSruudukkoja is a Finnish term that translates to "CSS Grids" in English. It refers to the CSS Grid Layout module, a powerful two-dimensional layout system for the web. This system allows developers to define rows and columns on a web page, enabling them to create complex and responsive layouts with much greater ease and control than previous methods.

Before CSS Grid, developers often relied on floats, inline-blocks, or frameworks that simulated grid systems. These methods could be cumbersome and lead to fragile layouts that were difficult to maintain. CSS Grid provides a more semantic and robust solution. It enables the separation of the content structure from its visual presentation, making websites more adaptable to different screen sizes and devices.

Key features of CSS Grid include the ability to define grid containers and grid items. A grid container establishes a grid formatting context, and its direct children become grid items. Properties like grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows are used to define the structure of the grid, specifying the size and number of columns and rows. Grid items can then be explicitly placed within this structure using properties like grid-column and grid-row. The inherent flexibility of CSS Grid allows for overlapping items, creating gaps between grid tracks, and achieving sophisticated alignment of content.