Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS

Re:Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS by seph-reed on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:57PM (#23579711)

SVG is not typically very responsive (mobile, desktop), and you end up digging yourself into a "no support" hole.

It seems the web community is dedicated to forcing things to work until they become fully supported features of HTML.

Also, in this case, CSS grid is a very good choice for layout, but the background could totally just be an svg.

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Re:Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS by felixfbecker on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:27AM (#23583078)

To explain why that is: In SVG everything has x and y coordinates relative to the SVG view box. There is no fundamental declarative layout like in HTML/CSS where the browser will calculate where elements go for you.

SVG is great as something to embed in HTML, but not the other way around.

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