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This is a page from the Cascading Style Sheets Working Group Blog. Some other places to find information are the “current work” page, the www-style mailing list, the Future of CSS syndicator, and the issue list on Github.
Do you want to know how the CSS WG works? Fantasai has written about:csswg, An Inside View of the CSS Working Group at W3C.
The CSS Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation of CSS Grid. Grid defines a new type of layout manager, the grid, which makes it extremely easy to specify complex, responsive 2-dimensional layouts for a page or sub-component of the page.
This spec is the culmination of years of design. In 2005, Bert Bos published the first draft of Advanced Layout, containing the proto-forms of what would eventually become Grid and Flexbox (along with tabbed layout, which never became a thing). While this received occasional updates, the Grid part didn’t receive much implementor interest until 2011, when editors from Microsoft published the first draft of Grid Layout. This attracted the attention of fantasai and Tab, who’d always liked the very similar Template Layout proposal from Bert’s draft, and they gradually merged the two proposals into the Grid spec now being published. Yay for collaboration!
We expect some minor adjustments to be made to the module as we gather
implementation experience in the CR cycle, however the module should be
mostly stable now. Changes since the last Working Draft are listed in the Changes section.
Please send feedback by filing an issue in GitHub (preferable) with the spec code ([css-grid]) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)