CSS is simple, stop making it hard

I started my day checking the headlines on news sites and saw an interesting title that caught my eye because it's about CSS. These posts are generally interesting because it'll mean I learn some new CSS tricks. The posts I've read are https://dbushell.com/2026/07/03/fixing-full-bleed-css/ and since this refers to https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/full-bleed/ I've read that too. And the only thing I think while reading is... why are you making this so complicated. But still you should read those posts but I also learned some new tricks. The holy grail layout First the holy grail layout. This was very annoying to get right in the era where you'd have to use divs and floats or you just weren't a cool web developer. But before that it was it was super easy to make work with a table. The holy grail layout from joshwcomeau.com Just looking at this makes it very obvious how you'd describe this as a table: <table> <tr><td bgcolor="cyan" colspan="3">HEADER</td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="blue"…