tamalchowdhury/periodic-table

Interactive Periodic Table which I made with React.js and CSS Grid. I was trying to memorize all the elements and thought, hey can I make this peculiar layout with my current CSS skills? I finally did

The Periodic Table of Elements

Made with CSS Grid, React and Science! See it in Live

Running it on your computer

You will need Node.js installed on your computer. Follow this tutorial to setup a local development environment with Node and Git bash

Clone the repository into your computer

git clone https://github.com/tamalchowdhury/periodic-table.git

Go into the new directory:

cd periodic-table

Install the dependencies with npm

npm install

Run the app locally by running npm run dev

npm run dev

Visit http://localhost:5173 (or whatever the address shown by Vite)

How it was made?

I made the layout using CSS grid. The table is a bunch of boxes in 18 columns, arranged in a funny way.

I used viewport width to set most of the element dimensions, text sizes, so that the table will scale according to screen sizes. Still, please test it on your end and send me a PR.

I created each box with a <div> with a class of element and number like: element-1

I used emmet to auto populate 118 boxes.

The unique class names helped me arrange them by position in CSS. For example in Element 57 and 89 when the Lathanides and Actinoids split the table, I made them seperate and pushed down the markup. See the main css file on how I did it.

After I arranged the elements the way it is, I then transitioned over React.

React allowed me to make the items interactive. I found a handy JSON that had all the element info which I used to dynamically populate the symbol names and other information. This saved me a lot of time and error making this table.

You can read the detailed blog Post here: How I made The Periodic Table with CSS Grid and React

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