The History of Column-Based CSS Layouts

Before CSS frameworks, there were column-based layouts. What are CSS frameworks? How did they come to be? We must look at history to understand where we are today in front-end web development. So, let’s look at what was happening in the world of CSS before CSS frameworks became the main show in town.

A very brief history of CSS layouts

Since this is a beginner-level course, we won’t dive too deep into how and why CSS frameworks have developed the way they have.

We will only mention the most important parts of this history to understand better how things work and why things are done the way they are in popular ...