FAQ: Advanced CSS Grid - Align Content

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Align Content” exercise from the lesson “Advanced CSS Grid”.

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Hi, when I click on the reply button to ask a question nothing happens.

Please help.

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I tried to enter the lesson’s example code into a test page to visualize everything for myself but the property “rows” wasn’t recognized. I replaced it with “grid-template-rows” and everything seemed to work as intended. Not sure if this is an error or it’s some shorthand I’m just not familiar with and Notepad++ isn’t picking it up. Just throwing it out there for my fellow visual learners!

HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<link href="./test.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

<!--TESTING SPACE-->

<main>
  <div class="top">Top</div>
  <div class="bottom">Bottom</div>
</main>

<!--TESTING SPACE-->

</html>

CSS:

main {
  display: grid;
  height: 600px;
  grid-template-rows: 200px 200px;
	border: solid black 1px;
  grid-template-areas: "top"
                       "bottom"; 
  align-content: center;
}

.top {
	color: red;
	border: solid black 1px;
}

.bottom {
	color: blue;
	border: solid black 1px;
}

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Anyone else just happily following along to these step by step instructions getting the right answers, but not actually learning anything or even undertanding the difference between align content and align items???

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yes “rows” should be “grid-template-rows”
it is still not changed in the example they have provided, I’m currently learning it and I was really confused at first that it is not possible to generate rows with that property.
Hence I came here to check.

maybe they testing our gained knowledge

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Whats different between align-content: space-evenly and align-content: space-around?

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Welcome to the forums!

space-evenly will apply an equal amount of space between the grid items and at the ends, while space-around applies an equal amount of space on each side of each grid item.

space-evenly:
| a a a a a |

space-around:
| a  a  a  a  a |
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That is exactly why I stop after each chapter to check in with myself and see if i need further explaination. I reccomend using multiple learning resources. After finishing a lesson try to put it into practice in codepen or something of the sort, or work on an experimental personal project and integrate what you learn in each lesson on it, and watch videos and do some google searches. That’s helped me tons. :slight_smile: