CSS Container Queries let components respond to their own size rather than the viewport. Learn how they work and when to use them over media queries.
For years, responsive design meant writing media queries that reacted to the viewport width. This worked well for page-level layouts but broke down when a component was reused in different contexts ? a card in a wide sidebar behaves differently from the same card in a narrow content well. CSS Container Queries solve this problem elegantly by letting a component respond to the size of its own container.How Container Queries WorkTo use container queries, you first establish a containment context on the parent element. Add container-type: inline-size to the wrapper, and optionally give it a name ...
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