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Sizing rows and columns

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Sizing rows and columns

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- [Tutor] Besides using absolute values to define the width of a column and the height of rows, there are other options. The word, auto tells the columns to take up all the available width, I'm going to go over here in the code and on line 12, grid-template-columns: auto auto auto and then save and go over here and refresh. So the extra space is equally divided between the three columns, that means the extra space is equal, but the columns are not, because the first column has much wider content. We can also give only some of the columns an auto width, so I'm gonna go over here and change auto auto auto to 100 pixels for the middle column and then save and refresh and there, that middle column is 100 pixels, with the other two dividing the leftover space evenly. The CSS grid, we have a useful new unit of measurement called the fr, which was created just for grid, the letters F-R stand for fractional unit. What the fr does is it allocates any free space that's left over after creating…

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