Picking a breakpoint for media queries can be a little tricky. Generic breakpoints sometimes don’t seem to do the job, and using specific device sizes is problematic because there are too many of them.
That’s why I like to go with more of a content-first approach, to a certain extent anyway. We don’t want to get too precise either, or we end up with way too many of them!
Container queries also change the game a little when it comes to breakpoints, opening up some new options and possibilities.
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✅ Piccalilli article that uses the container query viewport trick: https://piccalil.li/blog/reality-check-1-building-out-a-furniture-site-from-dribbble/
✅ Code from first example: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/wBvmdor
✅ Code from second example: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/WNVbbXZ/fef60d4f8a980bb59e4eed25fe69cfc0
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00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Working with ranges
05:00 - You don’t need all those breakpoints
05:50 - Content-first breakpoint approach
07:00 - Don’t micromanage your breakpoints
07:50 - Approaching this with a real layout
13:50 - When container queries make more sense
19:45 - Container queries based on the size of the columns you want
22:12 - Another example of container queries being useful
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