--- title: "Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid" url: https://daily.dev/posts/positioning-overlay-content-with-css-grid-pd-oowf24 source_url: https://css-tricks.com/positioning-overlay-content-with-css-grid/ type: article source: "CSS-Tricks" published: 2021-06-28T15:06:14.570Z updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z tags: ["css", "containers"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 13 comments: 1 language: 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. # Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid **[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 8 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary With CSS Grid, positioning overlay elements can be built using more logical, readable properties and values. The following are a few examples of where these grid properties come in handy. It will help to read up on grid-template-areas and grid-area properties if you’re not yet familiar with them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jctechdev** · 0 upvotes > Another amazing stuff about CSS. Learned something new! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#containers](https://daily.dev/tags/containers) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/positioning-overlay-content-with-css-grid-pd-oowf24)