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CSS Grid and min-content/auto

So I'm trying to create the below image with CSS grid. min-content and auto doesn't seem to be playing nice. Here is a fiddle! https://jsfiddle.net/pw9L52h0/

enter image description here

HTML:

<div class="grid">
  <div class="label-1">label 1</div>
  <div class="label-2">label 2</div>
  <div class="label-3">label 3</div>
  <div class="label-4">label 4</div>
  <div class="label-5">label 5</div>
  <div class="label-6">label 6</div>
  <div class="label-7">label 7</div>
</div>

CSS:

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: 60px min-content auto;
  grid-template-columns: 60px min-content auto;
  width: 230px;
  height: 230px;
  background-color: lightgray;
}

.label-1 {
  grid-row-start: 0;
  grid-row-end: 1;
  grid-column-start: 0;
  grid-column-end: 1;
  background-color: red;
}

.label-2 {
  grid-row-start: 0;
  grid-row-end: 1;
  grid-column-start: 1;
  grid-column-end: 3;
  background-color: green;
}

.label-3 {
  grid-row-start: 1;
  grid-row-end: 3;
  grid-column-start: 0;
  grid-column-end: 1;
  background-color: blue;
}

.label-4 {
  grid-row-start: 1;
  grid-row-end: 2;
  grid-column-start: 1;
  grid-column-end: 2;
  background-color: yellow;
}

.label-5 {
  grid-row-start: 1;
  grid-row-end: 2;
  grid-column-start: 2;
  grid-column-end: 3;
  background-color: orange;
}

.label-6 {
  grid-row-start: 2;
  grid-row-end: 3;
  grid-column-start: 1;
  grid-column-end: 2;
  background-color: pink;
}

.label-7 {
  grid-row-start: 2;
  grid-row-end: 3;
  grid-column-start: 2;
  grid-column-end: 3;
  background-color: purple;
}

It ends up like this:

enter image description here

Solution

  • You are overcomplicating this where you only need few line of code like below:

    .grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: 60px min-content auto;
  grid-template-columns: 60px min-content auto;
  width: 230px;
  height: 230px;
  background-color: lightgray;
}

.label-1 {
  background-color: red;
}

.label-2 {
  grid-column:span 2; /* this */
  background-color: green;
}

.label-3 {
  grid-row:span 2; /* and this */
  background-color: blue;
}

.label-4 {
  background-color: yellow;
}

.label-5 {
  background-color: orange;
}

.label-6 {
  background-color: pink;
}

.label-7 {
  background-color: purple;
}
    <div class="grid">
  <div class="label-1">label 1</div>
  <div class="label-2">label 2</div>
  <div class="label-3">label 3</div>
  <div class="label-4">label 4</div>
  <div class="label-5">label 5</div>
  <div class="label-6">label 6</div>
  <div class="label-7">label 7</div>
</div>

    The main issue with your code is that you are counting from 0 where you need to start from 1. 3 columns means 4 lines (1,2,3,4).

    You can clearly see in the console that grid-start-* = 0 is invalid and grid-end-* = 1 will place the end of the element at the first line creating an implicit new column/row at the beginning thus you will end having 4 columns/rows:

    enter image description here

    Here is your code fixed with the correct numbers:

    .grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: 60px min-content auto;
  grid-template-columns: 60px min-content auto;
  width: 230px;
  height: 230px;
  background-color: lightgray;
}

.label-1 {
  grid-row-start: 1;
  grid-row-end: 2;
  grid-column-start: 1;
  grid-column-end: 2;
  background-color: red;
}

.label-2 {
  grid-row-start: 1;
  grid-row-end: 2;
  grid-column-start: 2;
  grid-column-end: 4;
  background-color: green;
}

.label-3 {
  grid-row-start: 2;
  grid-row-end: 4;
  grid-column-start: 1;
  grid-column-end: 2;
  background-color: blue;
}

.label-4 {
  grid-row-start: 2;
  grid-row-end: 3;
  grid-column-start: 2;
  grid-column-end: 3;
  background-color: yellow;
}

.label-5 {
  grid-row-start: 2;
  grid-row-end: 3;
  grid-column-start: 3;
  grid-column-end: 4;
  background-color: orange;
}

.label-6 {
  grid-row-start: 3;
  grid-row-end: 4;
  grid-column-start: 2;
  grid-column-end: 3;
  background-color: pink;
}

.label-7 {
  grid-row-start: 3;
  grid-row-end: 4;
  grid-column-start: 3;
  grid-column-end: 4;
  background-color: purple;
}
    <div class="grid">
  <div class="label-1">label 1</div>
  <div class="label-2">label 2</div>
  <div class="label-3">label 3</div>
  <div class="label-4">label 4</div>
  <div class="label-5">label 5</div>
  <div class="label-6">label 6</div>
  <div class="label-7">label 7</div>
</div>