Prevent content from expanding grid items

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TL DR  Is there anything like table-layout  fixed for CSS grids     I tried to create a year-view calendar with a big 4x3 grid for the months and therein nested 7x6 grids for the days   The calendar should fill the page  so the year grid container gets a width and height of 100  each    year-grid     width  100     height  100      display  grid    grid-template  repeat 3  1fr    repeat 4  1fr       month-grid     display  grid    grid-template  repeat 6  1fr    repeat 7  1fr       Here s a working example  https   codepen io loilo full ryXLpO   For simplicity  every month in that pen there has 31 days and starts on a Monday    I also chose a ridiculously small font size to demonstrate the problem   Grid items    day cells  are pretty condensed as there are several hundreds of them on the page  And as soon as the day number labels become too large  feel free to play around with the font size in the pen using the buttons on the upper left  the grid will just grow in size and exceed the page s body size   Is there any way to prevent this behaviour   I initially declared my year grid to be 100  in width and height so that s probably the point to start at  but I couldn t find any grid-related CSS properties that would ve fitted that need   Disclaimer  I m aware that there are pretty easy ways to style that calendar just without using CSS Grid Layout  However  this question is more about the general knowledge on the topic than solving the concrete example

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The previous answer is pretty good  but I also wanted to mention that there is a fixed layout equivalent for grids  you just need to write minmax 0  1fr  instead of 1fr as your track size

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By default  a grid item cannot be smaller than the size of its content  Grid items have an initial size of min-width  auto and min-height  auto  You can override this behavior by setting grid items to min-width  0  min-height  0 or overflow with any value other than visible  From the spec   6 6  Automatic Minimum Size of Grid Items To provide a more reasonable default minimum size for grid items  this specification defines that the auto value of min-width   min-height also applies an automatic minimum size in the specified axis to grid items whose overflow is visible   The effect is analogous to the automatic minimum size imposed on flex items    Here s a more detailed explanation covering flex items  but it applies to grid items  as well   Why don  39 t flex items shrink past content size   This post also covers potential problems with nested containers and known rendering differences among major browsers   To fix your layout  make these adjustments to your code   month-grid     display  grid    grid-template  repeat 6  1fr    repeat 7  1fr     background   fff    grid-gap  2px    min-height  0      NEW      min-width  0       NEW  needed for Firefox        day-item     padding  10px    background   DFE7E7    overflow  hidden      NEW      min-width  0          NEW  needed for Firefox       jsFiddle demo  1fr vs minmax 0  1fr  The solution above operates at the grid item level  For a container level solution  see this post   Who does minmax 0  1fr  work for long elements while 1fr doesn  39 t

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The existing answers solve most cases  However  I ran into a case where I needed the content of the grid-cell to be overflow  visible  I solved it by absolutely positioning within a wrapper  not ideal  but the best I know   like this     month-grid     display  grid    grid-template  repeat 6  1fr    repeat 7  1fr     background   fff    grid-gap  2px        day-item-wrapper     position  relative      day-item     position  absolute    top  0    left  0    right  0    bottom  0    padding  10px     background  rgba 0 0 0 0 1       https   codepen io bjnsn pen vYYVPZv

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