--- title: Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough | daily.dev description: A practical walkthrough of CSS Grid covering the evolution from HTML tables and floats through Flexbox to modern CSS Grid. Demonstrates how to build a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grid-happens-because-flexbox-wasn-t-enough-bm2lfgjln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough | daily.dev og:description: A practical walkthrough of CSS Grid covering the evolution from HTML tables and floats through Flexbox to modern CSS Grid. Demonstrates how to build a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/grid-happens-because-flexbox-wasn-t-enough-bm2lfgjln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bM2LFGjln.png og:image:alt: Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough **[GitButler Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gitbutler)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical walkthrough of CSS Grid covering the evolution from HTML tables and floats through Flexbox to modern CSS Grid. Demonstrates how to build a responsive 12-column grid system with named grid lines, media query breakpoints, and subgrid for nested alignment — illustrated through a real GitButler marketing page redesign. Key techniques include named column lines for readable layout definitions, combining line names at breakpoints, and using subgrid to keep nested components aligned to the parent grid. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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