Tutorial: The easy way to build complex CSS Grids

Hello again,

In this video tutorial I give a brief overview of how to use the Grid component in Elements. I show you how you can quickly build complex layouts using our powerful WYSIWYG editor — No code, or css classes required :exploding_head:

If you’re familiar with writing HTML or Tailwind CSS, you’ll appreciate how amazingly easy it is in Elements to produce these layouts in seconds rather than hours!

Feedback

Let me know what you thought of the tutorial, was it helpful? what else would you like to see covered? Let me know in the comments below.

Cheers,
Dan & Team Realmac

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Absolutely love this! And I must say, I’m equally chuffed that you’re giving a nod to the TailwindCSS community. Brilliantly done! What a fantastic opportunity to expand your market. Simply smashing!

Just having a bit of fun this AM. I told AI I live in England and this is how it grammar checked my post. :smiley:

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Will you be able to overlap content from one grid item over another?

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Sure, you can even animate it if you like…

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Fantastic Video Dan! Thank you for creating it. Great tips!

Glad you found it useful :smiling_face:

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Excellent Dan, it’s helped my basic understanding of grids a lot. I’d love to see a follow up using images showing how to manage scaling and cropping whilst keeping the grid items ‘full’.

I would like to have an overlap from one grid item to another but with no animation effects. I set the trigger to “static” and entered some value in the Transforms settings. But nothing happens. Any idea how to get what I want?

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Just tried it and it works here, we’d need to see your project and specifically where you’re trying to do it… better still, can you put together a demo project and send it over?

Hey @Bartje,

I’m only guessing as to what effect you wanted to achieve with the grids, but hopefully this video should help!

Let me know if you had something else in mind!

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Quick update… it seems this may not be working in the current beta. If you can’t get this to work, just hold on for the NEXT beta (sorry)!

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I have the latest beta from yesterday and it is still not working.

Very strange, we’re investigating this again… will get it fixed!

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not working here either

+1. …

@dan still not working after yesterdays update.

No, we’re still working on that one. Fingers crossed for the next beta :+1:

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@dan In the video you mention that there are several ways to create Grid Items and then show being to do copy & Paste.

What are the other methods? Is there a plus (+) option just to add a Grid Item which would seem an intuitive way to do it?

Ah yes, well… we’re just changing how this works, more on that soon!

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The CSS Grid implemented in elements seems a bit basic. Will we see things like grid template areas etc, for content positioning at a later point? That’s an amazing feature for really complex grid layouts. You achieved overlapping grid containers using negative margins, but that’s not the real thing :wink: