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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Grid Layout Testing our Grid

Jerry Relunia
Jerry Relunia
17,148 Points
Posted by Jerry Relunia
Jerry Relunia
17,148 Points

Is there a reasoable need to use grid system with flexbox? Or is it one or the other?

I have been looking at flexbox as the the first thing to use when looking to create layouts of pages. But should I be thinking about grid systems with implementing flexbox? I can only guess using modernizr for IE as fallback using grids and floats when flexbox doesn't work.

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

It's not fair to compare a grid system with flexbox. Flexbox is just the tool, much like floats are just a tool. A grid system is the toolbox.

There are gridsystems based on flexbox: http://flexboxgrid.com/

If you use a tool like Autoprefixer, you can get IE support through IE10. You can use modernizr to detect for Flexbox support as on solution, you could also load a conditional style sheet to only load on IE9 and older with a float based grid.