title: Is YUI grids.css really that flexible?
body: <p>Yahoo's YUI project has some really great, well tested components that I'm just beginining to integrate to my (fixed width) site. I'm actually very excited - I've been away from consumer oriented site creation for a while and I'm having a lot of fun seeing what has developed in the last few years.</p>
  
  <p>Liking YUI component and reset.css so much - I assumed that my use of <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yahoo YUI grids.css</a> was a no brainer. In fact they say sell it pretty well themselves :</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Combining Page Widths, Template
    Presets, and Nesting Grids, a nearly
    infinite number of complex page
    layouts are possible"<br>
    <p><em>(from grids.css link above)</em></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>However I'm tryin to do some really simple 3 column layouts and cant seem to do some basic things - nor find good explanations in the documentation of how to do them.</p>
  
  <p>For instance:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Can i change the gutter between columns?</li>
  <li>Nesting the 1/2, 2/3, 1/4 type layouts within each other is very easy, but can i nest the <code>yui-t1</code> templates?
  
  <ul>
  <li>(I did get limited sucess nesting <code>yui-t1</code> selectors but ended up with multiple divs having the same id which led me to believe i was doing something wrong.</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My site is a lot more 'design driven' - thats to say theres a photoshop markup which needs to be made into a page. </p>
  
  <p>My impression so far is that YUI Grid is suited for more 'content driven' sites where you've got content like news that doesn't necessarily have to fit into an exact design. Is that a fair statement - or am I missing some magic trick to use grids.css?</p>
  
  <p>Am I better suited using an alternative grid with fixed positioning?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/348626/is-there-something-similiar-to-yui-grid">Alternatives to YUI</a>
   - as provided in another stackoverflow post</p>