How to make CSS Grid items take up remaining space?
A grid is a series of intersecting rows and columns.
You want the two items in the second column to automatically adjust their row height based on their content height.
That's not how a grid works. Such changes to the row height in the second column would also affect the first column.
If you must use CSS Grid, then what I would do is give the container, let's say, 12 rows, then have items span rows as necessary.
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 3fr;
grid-template-rows: repeat(12, 15px);
}
.one {
grid-row: 1 / -1;
background: red;
}
.two {
grid-row: span 10;
background: lightgreen;
}
.three {
grid-row: span 2;
background: aqua;
}
.grid > div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}<div class="grid">
<div class="one">One</div>
<div class="two">Two</div>
<div class="three">Three</div>
</div>Otherwise, you can try a flexbox solution.
.grid {
display: flex;
flex-flow: column wrap;
height: 200px;
}
.one {
flex: 0 0 100%;
width: 30%;
background: red;
}
.two {
flex: 1 0 1px;
width: 70%;
background: lightgreen;
}
.three {
background: aqua;
}
.grid>div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}<div class="grid">
<div class="one">One</div>
<div class="two">Two</div>
<div class="three">Three</div>
</div>When using grid, and you have grid template area used, and by chance you gave a particular area a width, you are left with a space grid does automatically. In this situation, let grid-template-columns be either min-content or max-content, so that it adjusts its position automatically.
Adding grid-template-rows: 1fr min-content; to your .grid will get you exactly what you're after :).
.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 3fr;
grid-template-rows: 1fr min-content;
grid-template-areas:
"one two"
"one three"
}
.one {
background: red;
grid-area: one;
padding: 50px 0;
}
.two {
background: green;
grid-area: two;
}
.three {
background: blue;
grid-area: three;
}<div class="grid">
<div class="one">
One
</div>
<div class="two">
Two
</div>
<div class="three">
Three
</div>
</div>Jens edits: For better browser support this can be used instead: grid-template-rows: 1fr auto;, at least in this exact case.