Elastic Grid Layouts
Steven Bradley erklärt Elastic CSS Layouts und die Unterschiede zu Fluid Layouts.
Developing flexible layouts with relative measurements should be a goal for web design as the format in which our designs live (the browser) will always be flexible.
Those measurements can be relative to the browser, which I’ve defined as fluid layouts or relative to something internal to the design, which I’ve defined as elastic layouts.
It’s quite simple to move from a fluid layout to an elastic one. All it takes is changing the measurement of the outermost container from % to ‘em.’ Everything inside that container will then be relative to the design instead of the browser window. Inner containers can continue to be measured in %..