Title: Feature request: css columns
Last modified: February 16, 2021

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# Feature request: css columns

 *  [Keirwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keirwatson/)
 * (@keirwatson)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-css-columns/)
 * I love that this plugin covers things that fall outside of most block developers
   horizons. I have a suggestion that might fall right inside your remit… css columns.
 * Wait, hear me out! I use css columns a lot, and right now I have to do it using
   custom css, which means I cannot see the effect, live, in the editor.
 * Css columns property is a special case (compared to many other layout options)
   which has been overlooked by block authors. It provides a fluid & responsive 
   text-flow layout that cannot be achieved with any combination of current WP blocks.
   Yet, it is very unlikely that any block developer will make a css columns block
   as it needs to be a wrapper (like the group or cover blocks) which already exist.
 * It it possible that this is something that might find its way into EditorsKit?
   Perhaps as a meta box that appears when relevant blocks are being used?
 * I think it would be a compelling feature and one that is unlikely to appear anywhere
   else.

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 *  [marxcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marxcie/)
 * (@marxcie)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-css-columns/#post-14275437)
 * Hey [@keirwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keirwatson/)! Just a tip,
   Automattic has a quite good CSS grid plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/layout-grid/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/layout-grid/)
   
   That’s what I’m using, although I made my own fork with from their git, to make
   some custom changes, I think the standalone plugin is already good, and covers
   one thing, but that’s very nicely: tadaaam! CSS grids! No bells and whistles,
   no other hundred useless blocks, only the columns editor. Nice and clean!
 * Together with the Block Navigation: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-navigation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-navigation/),
   my other recommendation makes it super easy to build relatively complex, but 
   easy to maintain layouts.
 * Best!
 * Upd. Ohh, if you’re looking for a more fancy grid builder plugin, there is another
   one, called Grids. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/grids/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/grids/)
   I like Automattic’s simple approach more, I do complex CSS grid layouts in Oxygen
   Builder, and export them as Gutenberg blocks, but maybe that’s what you’re looking
   for.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by [marxcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marxcie/).
      Reason: more tipps
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by [marxcie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marxcie/).
      Reason: typos

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