FAQ: CSS Grid Essentials - Creating Columns

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why do we use

not other element

There is a mistake in theory, I think you should say 40 percents:

We can also mix and match these two units. In the example below, there are three columns of width 20 pixels, 40 pixels, and 60 pixels:

grid-template-columns: 20px 40% 60px;

It isn’t really a mistake seeing as the grid width is 100px, so 40% is the same as 40px in this case.

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why would I want to use a grid if I can use a table or vice versa?

I think when you want to display something in traditional table form the table html has some built in styling that makes coding it less work but if you dont want something to be a table using the table html would probably limit the styling at your disposal whereas grids would be a bit more freeing.

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