A Short History of CSS Layout
From floats to grid, a tour of the bad decisions we made together and the better ones we eventually agreed on.
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The repository this page lives in exists to demonstrate behavior of the Next.js router, so the content is intentionally boring. Any similarity to real insight is entirely coincidental, if occasionally welcome.
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