Turning a flexbox into a grid using flex-wrap and align-content

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Adding flex-wrap to a flexbox container allows the items to form a grid. The content can then be aligned and distributed along the grid using justify-content and align-content.

Chester Rivas
Chester Rivas
~ 9 years ago

Pretty good lesson. My mind was a bit blasted at the grow and shrink concepts, but I'm sure I'll get it as soon as I start playing around with it.

Out of curiosity, how would you align the orphaned image on the last row to be aligned to the left, rather than to the middle?

Thanks guys!

Garth Braithwaite
Garth Braithwaite(instructor)
~ 9 years ago

Sadly there isn't a CSS only solution right now. One solution is to add extra items with zero height so they take up the same space but aren't visible.

Hopefully, in the future, there will be support for multiple ::after pseudo elements which will be treated like real DOM children.

James Barlow
James Barlow
~ 9 years ago

Short and to the point. Brilliant!

With flexbox and post-css, I'm kind of thinking I don't need Sass/Less anymore.

Garth Braithwaite
Garth Braithwaite(instructor)
~ 9 years ago

It's my current favorite flavor of CSS.

Fareez
Fareez
~ 8 years ago

awesome tutorial. in the grid example, what would you do if you wanted to remove all spaces between pictures?

Garth Braithwaite
Garth Braithwaite(instructor)
~ 8 years ago

Change space-between or space-around to flex-start, flex-end, or center (depending on the justification you want).

Zhenyang Hua
Zhenyang Hua
~ 8 years ago

It seems using align-items: center; similar to what align-content: space-around; does in this example. What is the difference when using align-items and align-content?

Raunaq Sahni
Raunaq Sahni
~ 7 years ago

The most perceivable difference is that align-items: center will have an effect even when the content takes only a single line. align-content on the other hand takes effect only when the content is spread across multiple lines.