#gridauto

Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto

With all the new properties related to CSS Grid Layout, one of the distinctions that always confused me was the difference between the grid-template-* and grid-auto-* properties. Specifically the difference between grid-template-rows/columns and grid-auto-rows/columns. Although I knew they were to do with the explicit and implicit grid systems, at face value they seemed to be doing almost the…