Gap whitespace between items

Question

I have setup a grid system and they are almost behaving as expected.

The problem is there is a big gab between the columns

I tried setting the grid-column-gap but it seems unresponsive. Note that im using scss, though i tried changing it back to css but that gave the same result.

 .container { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr); grid-column-gap: 1rem; grid-gap: 1rem; justify-items: center; .language { width: 360px; height: 150px; border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); background: white; padding: 1rem; text-align: left; border-radius: 10px; cursor: pointer; color: black; box-shadow: 2px 1px 1px 1px rgb(228, 228, 228); } p { color: red; } } 

 <template> <div class="container"> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> <div class="language"> <h3>LanguageContainer</h3> <p>Description</p> </div> </div> </template> 

Answer 1

As commented by Niet the dark Absol.

The whole container is 100% width by default, and so the columns each take a third of the full width available. However, the items within have a fixed width, so you have a large gap. – Niet the Dark Absol 54 mins ago

Simply by putting a width to my container fixed it.

.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
grid-column-gap: 1rem;
grid-gap: 1rem;
width: 70%;
justify-items: center;

.language {
    width: 360px;
    height: 150px;
    border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214);
    background: white;
    padding: 1rem;
    text-align: left;
    border-radius: 10px;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: black;
    box-shadow: 2px 1px 1px 1px rgb(228, 228, 228);
}

p {
    color: red;

}

Answer 2

Try this:

grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 0fr);

Now you can adjust the gap with this:

grid-gap: 10px;