How to get isotope to avoid gaps with variable size tiles [closed]

Answer 1

I ended up writing my own extension (perfectMasonry) which does not leave gaps, but instead lays out perfect "brick wall". :) I'll try to publish it (GitHub, mayhaps) as soon as I get some free time to clean it up.

Edit: Here be the perfectMasonry extension: https://github.com/zonear/isotope-perfectmasonry

Answer 2

If you look at this fiddle and - while observing the numbers in your divs - you see that the next masonry element up (the red element 5) can not possibly fit in the white square as it must come after element 4; so where it must end up means, that, with only three rows fitting, you'll get a white gap. Maybe you can use Isotope's shuffle and reLayout methods and sacrifice ordering your elements in a strict order?