{"id":1114,"date":"2024-03-05T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:55:48","slug":"the-fifty-fifty-split-and-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/the-fifty-fifty-split-and-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A left-and-right layout is blissfully easy with CSS grid. Something like <code>grid-auto-rows: 1fr;<\/code> will do it \u2014 just put two elements as the children. This is how I like to roll though, making two equal columns that can shrink properly:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"CSS\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"css\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-css\"><span class=\"hljs-selector-class\">.halfs<\/span> {\n  <span class=\"hljs-attribute\">display<\/span>: grid;\n  <span class=\"hljs-attribute\">grid-template-columns<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">repeat<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span>, minmax(<span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>fr));\n}<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">CSS<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">css<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>But Ryan Mulligan found a very interesting way to make it complicated in <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanmulligan.dev\/blog\/50-50-overflow\/\">The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow<\/a>. Let&#8217;s say <em>one<\/em> side needs to naturally grow with the content, but if the <em>other<\/em> side is longer, then it needs to scroll. I wouldn&#8217;t call it intuitive, but it turns out using <code>contain: size;<\/code> on the scrolling container <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/hexagoncircle\/pen\/PoLdzzo\">will do the trick<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-and-right layout is blissfully easy with CSS grid. Something like grid-auto-rows: 1fr; will do it \u2014 just put two elements as the children. This is how I like to roll though, making two equal columns that can shrink properly: But Ryan Mulligan found a very interesting way to make it complicated in The Fifty-Fifty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[122,7,123,53],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-contain","tag-css","tag-grid","tag-layout"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fiddyfiddy-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}