Hot take: An old coworker made me rethink my whole approach to grid gaps

I was talking to this guy Dave I used to work with at a web shop in Austin, and he said using gap: 0 and then adding margin to individual items is way more flexible than relying on grid's built-in gap property. At first I thought he was crazy, but after trying it on a dashboard for a client's stats page, I saw how much easier it was to control spacing for nested grids. Has anyone else experimented with ditching grid gaps for manual spacing?

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ericjackson2d ago

Dave sounds like the kind of guy who salts his driveway with kale.

betty_shah2d ago

Wait, is that a real thing people do? My neighbor's cousin tried that one winter after watching some weird eco-documentary. She spent like four hours spreading kale chips across her driveway and the next morning it was just a frozen salad situation with deer standing on it. The deer actually loved it, but her car couldn't get out for two days. She ended up having to call a tow truck and everything.

miles_jackson92d ago

Had a buddy who tried beets one time because he heard they had natural salt content. @ericjackson I'm picturing Dave standing out there with a bag of kale chips looking proud while his neighbor throws actual salt down like a normal person.