Helpful CSS Layout Generators

Jenisha Roshan
featurepreneur
Published in
3 min readAug 11, 2021

An effective layout not only makes your website attractive but also makes your website more user-friendly and engaging. The layout of a website clears the path for navigation within web pages and puts the most important elements of a website front and centre. Including grids are useful as they help in layout design. Listed below are a few websites which assist in CSS layout generation.

1) cssgr.id

Link : https://cssgr.id/

This is a really helpful website if you’re a front-end developer. You can start by specifying the number of rows and columns you want or by choosing among the given options and then generate code for the same. This allows you to focus on other aspects of design and less on the layout.

2)csslayout.io

Link : https://csslayout.io/

With a wide range of options to choose from this website is a hidden gem. There are 102 patterns to choose from and the way this makes our work easier is mindblowing. You must have a look at this website if you’re a front end developer, you’ll be amazed by the range of options available.

3) Loading.io

Link : https://loading.io/flexbox

Flexbox is quite useful nowadays, but sometimes it’s quite frustrating to test all attributes again every time. Layout with CSS Flexbox is powerful but complicated. So here’s a quick flexbox playground for testing your CSS with flex layout tricks.

4)CSS grid-generator

Link : https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.app/

Using this website you can set the numbers, and units of your columns and rows, and it’ll generate a CSS grid for you! Drag within the boxes to create divs placed within the grid.

5)grid. layout

Link : https://grid.layoutit.com/

A default layout is available on the website which can be modified to how we want it and code can be generated. Users can change the number of rows, columns,row-space,column-space etc and can also specify the alignment.

On a personal note if you’re a beginner, try to code by yourself with a little help using these websites instead of just copy-pasting them. Next time you develop your beautiful websites, I hope you make use of these websites and have fun designing. Happy coding.

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Jenisha Roshan
featurepreneur

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