Aligning description lists with CSS Grid

Published on by Andy Bell

Aligning your values neatly in a <dl> when you only have one <dt> and <dd> pair is really trivial, thanks to CSS Grid.

Use grid-template-columns: max-content 1fr and the <dt> will set itself to the maximum content width. You could also use auto.

css
dl {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: max-content 1fr;
}

With a little gap, it all looks really neat!