There’s no easy way of saying “this element should line break” with flexbox, but we can achieve this effect by adding invisible elements that take up 100% of the container’s height. We can fix this wrapping issue by forcing columns to restart at certain points. The highlighted box here (3) has to be rendered at the start of the third column or the ordering algorithm will break, but if there’s space for another element at the end of the 2nd column it will naturally be rendered there. We can use it to select every third element (3n), starting with the first element (3n+1), and set all those elements to have the same order value: This is where the nth-child() selector comes in. These items will fill up the first column, followed by 2, 5, 8, 11 for the 2nd column and 3, 6, 9, 12 for the 3rd and last column. the first elements in our flexbox layout have to be 1, 4, 7, 10. If we want to achieve the same order while using flex-direction: column we need to change the order of the elements to match the order of each column in the table (rather than each row): To achieve a sensible order using flex-direction: row we’d just have to render elements in the default order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. This fact gives us the possibility to easily re-group items in our grid so that we can change the ordering from columns to rows, while still rendering those rows as columns, using nth-child().
#Display flex and grid code
The CSS masonry solution depends on a detail of the order specification: what happens if two or more elements have the same order value? Which comes first? Flexbox falls back on the source code order: the element that appears first in the source code will be rendered before other elements with the same order value. The order property is pretty straight-forward to use: if you have two elements and one has order: 1 and the other one has order: 2 the element with order: 1 will be rendered before the other element, independent of their HTML source code order.
The order property affects the order of items contained in a CSS flexbox or grid, and we can use it to re-order items for our soon-to-be masonry layout. Re-ordering elements with order and nth-child() You might decide to use flex-direction: column and just move around the elements in your HTML to achieve the right visual order, but this can be cumbersome, it’s unnecessarily complex, and it will mess up the tab order of the elements. This can be really handy for combining the flexibility of flexbox with the precision of grid for cards that contain a wealth of data, such as you might need for real estate listings.So it seems impossible to get the best of both worlds: items rendered as columns but ordered as rows. You can use flexbox inside CSS grid and vice versa.įor instance, you could use flexbox to center an element like a button both vertically and horizontally within a particular grid cell (since centering with other CSS methods is … tricky).Īnd you could also flip this scenario, using grid to control the placement of data within cards whose layout is determined, at a higher level, by flexbox. Of course CSS grid and flexbox can work together in a layout.
Flexbox isn’t as useful for these more involved layouts, because it only lets you control how the elements are arranged in a single direction. Grid is practical for layouts that have multiple blocks of content and images that you need to organize. Think of CSS grid as a way to anchor multiple elements onto a page. Let’s take a look at the flex layout UI:ĬSS grid works best for more complicated layouts. Webflow makes it easy to set the styles for both the flex container and the flex children. The flex children: These are the contents of the flex container - the little boxes in the big box.Think of it like a big box that houses a bunch of smaller one. The flex container (or flex parent): This is the top-level or parent element.Elements in a flexbox layout can have their height or width set to accommodate different screen sizes.Ī flexbox layout consists of two elements: Then, out of this darkness came flexbox, a beam of light allowing designers to create grid-like dimensional layouts and help further the evolution of responsive design.įlexbox was developed to make it easier to align content using one-dimensional layouts, either vertically or horizontally. Designers wrestled with CSS floats in their efforts to create grid layouts, with no guarantees they’d work on different screen sizes. And, as the name suggests, allows child elements to shrink and expand as needed.īefore the development of flexbox, there was darkness. Flexbox excels at giving you control across one-dimensional layouts.
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