How to align left last row/line in multiple line f

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Flex-box: Align last row to grid (27 answers)

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I have a major issue with flexbox layout. I build a container with a boxes filled with images, and i decided to use flexbox layout to justify the content to make it looks like a grid

Her's the code:

<div class="container">

    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
    ...
    <div class="item"></div>

</div>

and the CSS:

.container {
    display: flex;
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: -moz-flex;
    justify-content: space-around;
    -webkit-justify-content: space-around;
    -moz-justify-content: space-around;
    flex-flow: row wrap;
    -webkit-flex-flow: row wrap;
    -moz-flex-flow: row wrap;
}

.container .item { width: 130px; height: 180px; background: red; margin: 0 1% 24px; }

And everything looks good except the last line/row - when it not contain the same number of element that other lines, centering elements and it broke my grid effect.

http://jsfiddle.net/puz219/7Hq2E/

How to align last line/row to left side?

Answer 1

This is not an effect you wanted to achieve?

http://jsfiddle.net/7Hq2E/21/

CSS:

.container {
    display: flex;
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: -moz-flex;
    flex-flow: row wrap;
    -webkit-flex-flow: row wrap;
    -moz-flex-flow: row wrap;
}
.container .item {
    width: 23%;
    height: 180px;
    background: red;
    margin: 0 1% 20px;
}

HTML:

<div class="container">
    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
    <div class="item"></div>
</div>

Answer 2

You can use flexbox with max-width (vendor prefixes removed):

.container {
   display: flex;
   width: 100%;
   justify-content: space-around;
   flex-direction: row;
   flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.column {
   flex: 1 0 33.333%;
   max-width: 33.333%;
}

And the HTML

<div class="container">
    <div class="column">1</div>
    <div class="column">2</div>
    <div class="column">3</div>
    <div class="column">4</div>
</div>

View on CodePen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/gpwEJW

Answer 3

I thought this example might be useful for anyone who wanted multiple items and allow for responsiveness, the grid items change depending on the viewport size. It does not use any invisible children, it's all done through css.

Might help someone trying align items to the left when the last row has less items and they require the page to be responsive.

http://codepen.io/kunji/pen/yNPVVb

Sample HTML

<div class="main-container">

    <div class="main-items-container">

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

        <div class="item-container">
          <h2>Item Name</h2>
        </div>

    </div>

</div>

Sample CSS

.main-container {
  max-width: 1000px;
  min-width: 300px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 40px;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border: 1px solid #000;
}

.main-items-container {
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: flexbox;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: -ms-flex;
  display: flex;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 10px 0;
  list-style: none;
  width: auto;
  -webkit-flex-flow: row wrap;
  justify-content: flex-start;
  -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  -webkit-align-items: stretch;
  align-items: stretch;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

@media (min-width: 971px) {
  .item-container {
    margin: 10px 2%;
    width: 22%;
    padding: 10px;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }
  .item-container:nth-child(4n+1) {
    margin-left: 0;
  }
  .item-container:nth-child(4n) {
    margin-right: 0;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 550px) and (max-width: 970px) {
  .item-container {
    margin: 10px 2.50%;
    width: 30%;
    padding: 10px;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }
  .item-container:nth-child(3n+1) {
    margin-left: 0;
  }
  .item-container:nth-child(3n) {
    margin-right: 0;
  }
}

@media (max-width: 549px) {
  .item-container {
    margin: 10px 0;
    width: initial;
    padding: 10px;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }
}

Answer 4

Unfortunately this is not possible with flexbox.

The best work-around is to add invisible children 'filling up' the empty 'blocks' in the last row. That way, the actual, visible, element is aligned left.

Similar question: Flex-box: Align last row to grid

Answer 5

I've checked it and it worked better in my HTML editor tool

the script should be the way

CSS Part

.container {
display: flex;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-flex;
justify-content: space-around;
-webkit-justify-content: space-around;
-moz-justify-content: space-around;
flex-flow: row wrap;
-webkit-flex-flow: row wrap;
-moz-flex-flow: row wrap;
}

.container .item { width: 130px; height: 180px; background: green; margin: 0 1% 24px; }

HTML Part

<div class="container">

    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Google</a></div>
    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Yahoo</a></div>
    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Bing</a></div>
</div>

<div class="container">
    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Google</a></div>
    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Yahoo</a></div>
    <div class="item"><a href='google.com'>Bing</a></div>

</div>

Answer 6

You can use margin-right:auto on the last-child flex item.

The problem here is that you will lose the space-between property on the left for this flex item.

Hope it helps!