# The Minimum Content Size In CSS Grid

DevFeed: [The Minimum Content Size In CSS Grid](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-minimum-content-size-in-css-grid-45352.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ishadeed.com/article/min-content-size-css-grid/>)

Author: Ahmad Shadeed

Published: 2021-01-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Ahmad Shadeed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ahmad-shadeed.md>)

Topics: [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [css-grid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css-grid.md>), [devtools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devtools.md>), [grid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grid.md>), [minimum-content](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/minimum-content.md>), [scrolling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scrolling.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains a CSS Grid layout issue in which a scrolling container can expand its grid item and cause unexpected horizontal scrolling across the page. It discusses the minimum content size of grid items and uses browser DevTools to investigate the cause.

## Source excerpt

Walking through an issue I faced that is related to the minimum content size in CSS grid