The first comprehensive draft of a grid layout for CSS was created by Phil Cupp at Microsoft in 2011 and implemented in Internet Explorer 10 behind a -ms- vendor prefix.

The syntax was restructured and further refined through several iterations in the CSS Working Group, led primarily by Elika Etemad and Tab Atkins Jr.

The feature was widely adopted by web developers after evangelism led primarily by Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons.

[8] As of October 2017, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all support CSS grid without vendor prefixes.

[12] Web developers targeting older browsers can utilize Modernizr 3.5.0 to detect and gracefully degrade the webpage as needed.