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Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout


If you’ve been making websites for years, you know how frustrating it was to lay out a web page with CSS floats.

In 2022, Apple started implementing this CSS Grid Level 3 proposal in Safari Technology Preview (where it’s currently on by default), and we’ve been helping to move the web standard along to reach maturity. Seen in Books: A Living History by Martyn Lyons, 2011.It wasn’t until the 20th century that European and American modernists started promoting the idea that “proper” graphic design grids should line content up in both directions — in rows as well as columns. Names in CSS are usually simple words that directly describe the result they create — like center, under, contain, clip, revert, ltr, always, break-word, hidden, allow-end, scale-down, wrap, smooth.

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