Frontend Mentor - Pricing component with toggle solution

This is a solution to the Pricing component with toggle challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the component depending on their device's screen size
• Control the toggle with both their mouse/trackpad and their keyboard
• Bonus: Complete the challenge with just HTML and CSS

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Gitub
• Live Site URL: Deployed on Netlify

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

• Centering grid items in an auto-fill container - Something I've been bumping into regularly when using auto-fit for grid, is the grid no longer being centered. I usuasllu would look for work-arounds, but thought today that that was a silly solution and I should have a look at Stackoverflow. The solution is too straight-forward actually: justify-content: center.

.cards-container {
	display: grid;
	grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(16.5rem, 20rem));
	justify-content: center;
	gap: 2rem;
	margin-inline: auto;
	margin-top: 4rem;
}

Useful resources

• Build a toggle button with only HTML and CSS - I used this code to create my toggle.
• CSS Demystified by Kevin Powell - These price cards are exactly the example Kevin uses in the first chapter of his CSS Demystified course, talking about inheritance and custom variables. So I implemented his suggestion.

Author

• Website - Katrien Schuermans
• Frontend Mentor - @graficdoctor
• Twitter - @graficdoctor