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Grid seems so natural. Why did it take 25+ years of css standards to get to it? Is it only natural in retrospect, having slogged through all the troubles of oth

Grid seems so natural. Why did it take 25+ years of css standards to get to it? Is it only natural in retrospect, having slogged through all the troubles of other css layout systems? Was there some long running bias against table-like things that prevented people from seeing the way?

superkuh 7y ago
It took a long time for tables to be forgotten. Once that happened it was only natural they'd be reinvented in contemporary style.
- rimliu 7y ago
  Grid is nothing like tables.
  - tty2300 7y ago
    The main difference being you can effortlessly rearrange the layout based on screen size which tables couldn't do.
goto11 7y ago
CSS have supported tables (via display:table) since CSS 2.0. CSS grid is much more powerful than tables though.