Warning: I paid $150 for a CSS Grid course and it was a total waste

I saw everyone raving about this online course for mastering complex layouts. I bought it last month, thinking it would show me some next-level tricks. The instructor spent the first three hours just explaining basic grid properties I already knew from the free docs. The one 'advanced' project was just a basic blog layout with a sidebar. Has anyone found a resource that actually teaches the tricky stuff, like overlapping items without absolute positioning?

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ryan_smith371mo ago

Honestly, I just learned that stuff by messing around in CodePen for hours.

milam421mo agoMost Upvoted

How many times have you broken something in CodePen just to see what happens? @ryan_smith37 is right, that's the real way to learn. I'd copy a button from a site I liked, paste it in, and then start changing random CSS numbers to see what each one did. Sometimes the whole thing would go off the screen, but then I'd know what not to do next time.

graymiller21d ago

Totally! I did the exact same thing with layout stuff. I'd take a simple flexbox example and just start swapping "row" for "column" and messing with the justify-content values. Seeing the boxes jump around instantly made it click way more than any tutorial.