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Grid Layout contains features targeted at web application authors. The Grid can be used to achieve many different layouts. It excels at dividing up space for major regions of an application, or defining the relationship in terms of size, position, and layer between parts of a control built from HTML primitives.

Grid Layout contains features targeted at web application authors. The Grid can be used to achieve many different layouts. It excels at dividing up space for major regions of an application, or defining the relationship in terms of size, position, and layer between parts of a control built from HTML primitives.

A simple layout style for websites

As stated by Mashable, "2013 is the year of Responsive Web Design." A responsive web design uses relative sizing units like percentages or em's, rather than absolute units like pixels or points. One website layout sizes automatically across different device and computer screens.

How will "What You See is What You Get" work when what you get, changes depending on how you choose to see it? Three years ago, the concept of responsive layout was simply an exciting new design option. Now into the mainstream, it's throwing up more than a few problems for us web developers. With mobile and tablet usage on the rise, and the likes of Microsoft and Guardian redesigning their sites to reach this growing market, it's not surprising that responsive design is now a high priority for clients.

CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. While any CSS solution for layout is preferable to nested tables, no single solution fits every website. But that hasn't stopped them from trying.

Web Toolkit for flexible grid layout and responsive design.