Kevin Powell - Community•17mo ago

Centering columns in CSS Grid

Hello, Here is what am trying to achieve in CSS Grid. Columns are 50% of the container minus gap. Odd columns center to the container. On mobile/small screen, columns become full width (only mentioning as I think this can be achieved without a media query?) I have mocked this up (badly I might add) in flexbox at this url. https://codepen.io/grantsmith/pen/BaPEMqB I have no errors as such, just can not figure out how to achieve the above in Grid.

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Wolle•17mo ago

Grid-children cannot escape afaik, so they are bound to the grid. You could 1) let them span and give them margin-inline: auto, but you would have to get it to have the correct width... 2) use transform: translate (you will have to include the gap in your calculation) There are probaly other solutions, these are the two that came to my mind and I think are reasonable.

MarkBoots•17mo ago

with grid, you could do something like this Make a 4colum grid, give all cards a column span of 2 and when the last child is odd, let it start at the second column

.wrapper {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
  grid-auto-rows: 350px;
  gap: 1.5rem;
}
.card {
  grid-column-end: span 2;
  background-color: blue;
}
.card:last-child:nth-child(odd){
  grid-column-start: 2
}

.wrapper {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
  grid-auto-rows: 350px;
  gap: 1.5rem;
}
.card {
  grid-column-end: span 2;
  background-color: blue;
}
.card:last-child:nth-child(odd){
  grid-column-start: 2
}

demo: https://codepen.io/MarkBoots/pen/zYLXXjx

Grant•17mo ago

That's a neat solution, thanks very much, I was just about to revert back to grid! Could I use a minmax solution to avoid a media query?

MarkBoots•17mo ago

uhm, have to think about that, because im setting the last odd one to grid column 2, it will break with this I thought you would allways wanted 2 columns because you said 50%

Grant•17mo ago

Sorry, just thinking out loud, easier enough to write a media query. Thanks again for the help

MarkBoots•17mo ago

yea, a media query would be the most logical and easiest way

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