Flex-box: Align last row to grid

Question

I have a simple flex-box layout with a container like:

.grid {
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row wrap;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

Answer 1

There is a way without flexbox, although you'd need to meet the following conditions. 1) The container has padding. 2) Items are the same size and you know exactly how many you want per line.

ul {
  padding: 0 3% 0 5%;
}
li {
  display: inline-block; 
  padding: 0 2% 2% 0;
  width: 28.66%;
}

The smaller padding on the right side of the container allows for the extra padding to the right of each list item. Assuming other items in the same parent as the list object are padded with 0 5%, it will be flush with them. You can also adjust the percentages to however much margin you'd like or use calculate px values.

Of course, you can do the same without the padding on the container by using nth-child (IE 9+) to remove margin on every third box.

Answer 2

If you want to align the last item to the grid use the following code:

Grid container

.card-grid {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  max-height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  -webkit-box-orient: horizontal;
  -webkit-box-direction: normal;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: stretch;
  align-content: stretch;
  -webkit-box-align: stretch;
  -webkit-box-orient: horizontal;
  -webkit-box-direction: normal;
  -ms-flex-flow: row wrap;
  flex-flow: row wrap;
}

.card-grid:after {
  content: "";
  flex: 1 1 100%;
  max-width: 32%;
}

Item in the grid

.card {
  flex: 1 1 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  -webkit-box-flex: 1;
  max-width: 32%;
  display: block;
  position: relative;

}

The trick is to set the max-width of the item equal to the max-width of the .card-grid:after.

Live demo on Codepen

Answer 3

I made a SCSS mixin for it.

@mixin last-row-flexbox($num-columns, $width-items){

  $filled-space: $width-items * $num-columns;
  $margin: calc((100% - #{$filled-space}) / (#{$num-columns} - 1));

  $num-cols-1 : $num-columns - 1;

  &:nth-child(#{$num-columns}n+1):nth-last-child(-n+#{$num-cols-1}) ~ & {
    margin-left: $margin;
  }
  @for $i from 1 through $num-columns - 2 { 
    $index: $num-columns - $i;
    &:nth-child(#{$num-columns}n+#{$index}):last-child{
      margin-right: auto;
    }
  }
}

This is the codepen link: http://codepen.io/diana_aceves/pen/KVGNZg

You just have to set the items width in percentage and number of columns.

I hope this can help you.

Answer 4

This is pretty hacky, but it works for me. I was trying to achieve consistent spacing/margins.

.grid {
  width: 1024px;
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row wrap;
  padding: 32px;
  background-color: #ffffd;  

  &:after {
    content: "";
    flex: auto;
    margin-left:-1%;
  }

  .item {
    flex: 1 0 24.25%;
    max-width: 24.25%;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #bbb;

    &:nth-child(4n+2),
    &:nth-child(4n+3),
    &:nth-child(4n+4) {
      margin-left: 1%;
    }

    &:nth-child(4n+1):nth-last-child(-n+4),
      &:nth-child(4n+1):nth-last-child(-n+4) ~ .item {
        margin-bottom: 0;
    }    

  }
}

http://codepen.io/rustydev/pen/f7c8920e0beb0ba9a904da7ebd9970ae/

Answer 5

Simply Use Jquery/Javascript trick to add an empty div:

if($('.exposegrid').length%3==2){
 $(".exposegrid").append('<div class="exposetab"></div>');
}