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title: "Masonry? In CSS?!"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/masonry-in-css--czaawrkrg
source_url: https://css-irl.info/masonry-in-css/
type: article
source: "CSS {IRL}"
published: 2022-07-05T13:21:19.671Z
updated: 2022-07-05T13:21:19.670Z
tags: ["css"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 21
comments: 1
language: en
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# Masonry? In CSS?!

**[CSS \{IRL\}](https://daily.dev/sources/css-irl)** · 4 min read · 21 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Masonry layout is where different height items are laid out in columns but, rather than being aligned on the row axis, the items below effectively move up to plug any gaps, kind of like a bricklayer. Building a true masonry layout currently requires Javascript, such as the Masonry library created for precisely this purpose.

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**@blackfrom80s** · 0 upvotes

> nice

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