thesohailjafri / chat-app-css-illustration

Chat app illustration using pure CSS

Frontend Mentor - Chat app CSS illustration solution

This is a solution to the Chat app CSS illustration 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

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the component depending on their device's screen size
• Bonus: See the chat interface animate on the initial load

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: github.com/thesohailjafri/Chat-app-css-illustration
• Live Site URL: fm-chat-app-css-illustration.netlify.app

My process

I started by creating and aligning background color blocks then i create chat app block using nested combination of divs and spans and then the Intro section and aligned Mobile and intro using css grid-template-column.

Built with

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

What I learned

How to use Grid-template Columns and Rows.

To see how you can add code snippets, see below:

main {
     display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: [a] 250px [b] auto;
    column-gap: 120px;
}

Useful resources

• Grid Flow and Basics - helped to understand grid flow.

Author

• Website - Sohail Jafri
• Frontend Mentor - @thesohailjafri