CSS Masonry Layout: Native Browser Support Eliminates Need for JavaScript Libraries
By
[email protected] (Patrick Brosset)
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article explores the upcoming native CSS Masonry layout feature, which will eliminate the need for JavaScript libraries to create masonry-style layouts. It provides a comprehensive technical overview of how CSS Masonry works, its implementation details, browser support status, and practical examples of how web developers can use this feature. The content includes historical context about masonry layouts, comparisons with existing JavaScript solutions, and detailed explanations of CSS properties and values that enable masonry functionality.
Key quotes
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About 15 years ago, I was working at a company where we built apps for travel agents, airport workers, and airline companies. We also built our own in-house framework for UI components and single-page app capabilities.
We had components for everything: fields, buttons, tabs, ranges, datatables, menus, datepickers, selects, and multiselects. We even had a div component. Our div component was great by the way, it allowed us to
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