Zell Liew 6/7/2023

Best practices for container queries

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This technical article details a key best practice for implementing CSS container queries: always wrapping the target component in a dedicated container element, separate from the layout grid. It explains why using the grid as the container leads to inaccurate container query unit (cqi) calculations and oversized elements, providing code examples to illustrate the correct and incorrect HTML structures.

Best practices for container queries

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