The New CSS Layout

What Hacker News says

1. runarbergOct 2026
   If you haven‘t been paying attention you will off course miss the good stuff out there.

   Rachel Andrew’s (mentioned in TFA) for example has The New CSS Layout (2017) https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout.html an excellent book I still recommend for anybody who want to learn about modern CSS layout.

   But if you are this dismissive of the field of course you will fail to see the value of them.

   thread
2. runarbergDec 2023
   For layout I do recommend The New CSS Layout by Rachel Andrew (https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout) it is a few years old now, but not much has changed in layout since it was published.
   thread
3. runarbergMay 2021
   For the front end there is more an assortment of articles, particularly from <https://alistapart.com/> and <https://www.smashingmagazine.com/>.

   A classic one is Responsive Web Design[1] by Ethan Marcotte. You can also familiarize your self with Rachel Andrew’s work[2] on CSS layout (and I recommend the book The New CSS Layout[3] as a good introduction to layout in modern CSS).

   You should also familiarize your self with accessibility (A11Y). I would imagine A11Y and inclusive web development to be the front and center of a chapter 4 like SICP for web devs. Perhaps My Accessibility Journey: What I’ve Learned So Far[4] by Manuel Matuzović is a good one to start, i.e. opinionated while instructing, in the spirit of SICP.

   1: https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/

   2: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/understanding-css-g...

   3: https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout

   4: https://alistapart.com/article/my-accessibility-journey-what...

   Show morethread
4. tlrobinsonJun 2019
   I can recommend "The New CSS Layout" for getting up to speed on CSS Grid (among other modern and legacy layout techniques): https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout

   It does mention subgrid too.

   thread
5. lenkiteFeb 2018
   I recommend Rachel Andrews "The New CSS Layout" for understanding everything in CSS layout: https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout
   thread