It's settled! A new CSS display property keyword called grid-lanes will trigger a masonry layout mode.

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The CSS Working Group has officially decided on `display: grid-lanes` as the syntax for triggering masonry layout in CSS. After years of debate starting in 2017, the CSSWG resolved to reuse grid templating and placement properties for masonry. All major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) had already implemented experimental versions with different syntaxes but are now working on switching to `grid-lanes`. The feature is not yet available in stable browsers, but implementation work is underway across all major browser engines.

Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes

<p>Finally! After years of JS hacks for masonry, display: grid-lanes is the clean win we’ve craved.</p>


<p>Just when I feel like I was finally getting flex and grid 100% muscle memory… sigh. I guess we’re never done learning, that’s the nature of any CS I suppose.</p>
