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by @jm3 · aka John Manoogian3

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Target content to grid areas by named area

Posted at — Jun 4, 2019

CSS Grid also supports a wild and wacky visual ASCII-art row syntax!

Click “Result” to see a not-terribly clear example of this odd syntax in action with a simple grid demo. I used egregiously short two-letter abbreviated names just so that the ASCII grid arranged nicely. Using brief names like this isn’t strictly necessary, but it seems useful.