TLDR: Codepen of nested grid overflowing and not being fixed by using grid-template-columns: repeat(16, minmax(0,1fr));
So I've an element container, with two main elements, summary-wrapper and stats-wrapper
container has the following grid:
.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(16, 1fr);
column-gap: 4rem;
row-gap: 4rem;
padding: 5rem;
width: 100%;
}
summary-wrapper is placed at grid-column: 1/11; (line 96) and
stats-wrapper at grid-column: 11/17; (line 25)
In my mind, changing the grid column of the stats-wrapper to grid-column: 12/17 should just move the start of the element, which it does in Chrome:
Chrome (no overflow):
But in Firefox:
Now the behaviour being different between browsers seems a bit weird, but doesn't really change the fact that my mental model for how grid containers works is just... wrong - and I've experienced (and am experiencing in my project) this behaviour in Chrome, so that's not really the focus of my question.
I've had this issue before, but with inputs, and was directed to this answer that allows longer elements to collapse using grid-template-columns: repeat(16, minmax(0,1fr));
This seems to work for the stats element (if you look the header no longer overflows the page). But because the contents of that element (excluding the header) are part of a nested grid too, I get the same problem, but it's not fixed using grid-template-columns: repeat(16, minmax(0,1fr)); (line 50) this time:
I just find it very strange, as I can't see any reason why the elements (in either case) need to overflow. Even the fix using minmax(0,1fr) relies on the explanation that
1fr is equivalent to minmax(auto, 1fr)
and that auto is preventing the track being smaller than the item. But in this case (afaik) the items stats__section--viewed stats__section--applications and stats__section--trend have no min size, other than their text
I'm just stumped!
codepen
Any help appreciated!
The reason for the overflow is a column-gap rule in the nested grid .stats__content.
.stats__content {
position: relative;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(16, minmax(0, 1fr));
column-gap: 4rem; <----- CULPRIT
row-gap: 3rem;
background-color: white;
padding: 2rem 0.1rem 0.1rem 0.1rem;
}
Being that it's a fixed width, repeated 15 times (because gaps only go between tracks, not between tracks and container edges), an overflow is inevitable in this case.
(4rem) * (15 gaps) = 60rem of inflexible width
Reduce the number of gaps or find another solution for separating the items.
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TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv
TL;DR: Is there anything like table-layout: fixed for CSS grids?
I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days.
The calendar should fill the page, so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100% each.
.year-grid {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(3, 1fr) / repeat(4, 1fr);
}
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
}
Here's a working example: https://codepen.io/loilo/full/ryXLpO/
For simplicity, every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday.
I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem:
Grid items (= day cells) are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page. And as soon as the day number labels become too large (feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left) the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page's body size.
Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?
I initially declared my year grid to be 100% in width and height so that's probably the point to start at, but I couldn't find any grid-related CSS properties that would've fitted that need.
Disclaimer: I'm aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout. However, this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example.
By default, a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content.
Grid items have an initial size of min-width: auto and min-height: auto.
You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width: 0, min-height: 0 or overflow with any value other than visible.
From the spec:
6.6. Automatic Minimum Size of Grid
Items
To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items, this
specification defines that the auto value of min-width / min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible. (The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items.)
Here's a more detailed explanation covering flex items, but it applies to grid items, as well:
Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers.
To fix your layout, make these adjustments to your code:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
min-height: 0; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
.day-item {
padding: 10px;
background: #DFE7E7;
overflow: hidden; /* NEW */
min-width: 0; /* NEW; needed for Firefox */
}
jsFiddle demo
1fr vs minmax(0, 1fr)
The solution above operates at the grid item level. For a container level solution, see this post:
Who does minmax(0, 1fr) work for long elements while 1fr doesn't?
The previous answer is pretty good, but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids, you just need to write minmax(0, 1fr) instead of 1fr as your track size.
The existing answers solve most cases. However, I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow: visible. I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper (not ideal, but the best I know), like this:
.month-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template: repeat(6, 1fr) / repeat(7, 1fr);
background: #fff;
grid-gap: 2px;
}
.day-item-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.day-item {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
https://codepen.io/bjnsn/pen/vYYVPZv