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Laying out a simple blog page: the promo block

Note that we did not fix the height of the row in which the site header is located. The header contains a menu in which we can increase the number of items, which in turn will change the height of the block.

Let’s assign a fixed height to the next row. The row includes a promo block with an image, and this grid item will occupy two columns of the grid. Do not be alarmed by the fixed row height. We can allow such an odd setting, since the supplied image has a fixed height of 200px and the button has a short label. For this exercise, the block can keep that fixed height.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Laying out a simple blog page: the promo block</title> <link href="lopatkin.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body> <div class="index-grid"> <header class="site-header"> <h1 class="visually-hidden">The Lopatkin Garden Accessories Store</h1> <nav class="site-nav"> <a class="logo"> <img src="logo.svg" width="40" height="40" alt=""> Lopatkin </a> <a href="#">About Us</a> <a href="#">Catalog</a> <a href="#">Blog</a> </nav> </header> <section class="promo"> <h2 class="visually-hidden">Promotions</h2> <img src="garden.jpg" width="360" height="200" alt="“2018 Garden Fashion” Collection"> <a class="button button--promo" href="#">Monthly promotions</a> </section> <section class="blog"> <article class="blog-item"> <h2>Where are the gnomes?</h2> <img src="gnomes.png" width="150" height="80" alt="Garden gnomes with red hats"> <p>Fill the backyard with gnomes.</p> <a class="button" href="#">Read</a> </article> </section> <aside class="sidebar"> <h2>Reviews</h2> <ul class="reviews"> <li class="review-item"> <p>I liked everything very much. Especially the shovel. Useful thing. I like it.</p> <cite>Oleg_</cite> </li> <li class="review-item"> <p>I managed to decorate my yard. Thanks for your great advice! The gnomes are cute.</p> <cite>Aristarch</cite> </li> <li class="review-item"> <p>The gnomes are very scary. I’m not certain how you can sell them at all!11</p> <cite>not_your_girl_79</cite> </li> </ul> </aside> <footer class="site-footer"> <a class="vkontakte" href="https://vk.com/htmlacademy">VK</a> <a class="facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/htmlacademy">Facebook</a> <a class="instagram" href="https://instagram.com/htmlacademy">Instagram</a> </footer> </div> </body> </html>
CSS
.index-grid { display: grid; width: 550px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; gap: 20px; grid-template-columns: 170px 170px 170px; } .site-header { grid-column-start: 1; grid-column-end: 4; }

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    1. Define the first two rows of the .index-grid grid using grid-template-rows: give the first an automatic height and the second a height of 200px,
    2. and then assign the grid item coordinates for column grid lines 1 to 3 for the .promo block.

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