Responsive CSS Grid Layouts for Documentation
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Multi-Column Technical Reading Layouts
A modern documentation reader pairs a sticky left syllabus rail (280px), a flexible central reading column (minmax(0, 1fr)), and a sticky right table of contents (240px) on desktop screens, collapsing gracefully to a single column with a slide-over drawer on mobile devices.
Example
breakpoints = {
"mobile": "<= 768px (1 column + drawer)",
"tablet": "769px - 1023px (2 columns: syllabus + content)",
"desktop": ">= 1024px (3 columns: syllabus + content + TOC)"
}
for device, layout in breakpoints.items():
print(f"{device.capitalize():8s}: {layout}")