FAQ: CSS Grid Essentials - Creating a Grid

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[dozana]

My code was

.grid {
  border: 2px blue solid;
  width: 400px;
  height: 500px;
  display: grid;
}

.box {
  background-color: beige;
  color: black;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 2px dodgerblue solid;
}

and the solution was

.grid {
  border: 2px blue solid;
  width: 400px;
  height: 500px;
  display: grid;
}

.box {
  background-color: beige;
  color: black;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 2px dodgerblue solid;
}

But somehow mine was wrong…? I’m working on a small screen so maybe I just can’t see it, but I can’t tell what difference there is between these two.

[will_hm]

That’s weird – it looks like you did everything perfect.

Sometimes the Code Academy interface will ‘time out’ and I have to reload the page and run the code again for it to work.

[dejeeas]

What’s the difference between building a table and a grid?

[samyadel]

You can basically achieve the same thing with tables and CSS grid. However, you should use CSS grid as CSS should take care of all the styling and layout while HTML should take care of the content and structure

[mrlearner15]

i see that in display grid it automatically gives the grid a size on each indivual row is without specifying what size it truly, heres an example of a snipp i took