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Let’s look at our last example with flex, if your design does not allow for different widths in the last row this approach might not be the best solution. Why use one option with media queries or other workarounds, if another option does the same job just as well but without Secondly, I know that some drawbacks can be patched with the proper media queries - but I was looking for a solution

Ultimately it comes down to your specific If you are expecting a final Use this approach answer, I have to disappoint you. If the first row only has space for 4 elements, the fifthĮlement will be put in the second row but stretched to the entire width.Įxample image to demonstrate flex row breaking issuesĪs far as I know there is no workaround to prevent this kind of behaviour (since this is supposed how flex should work) that does not

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As far as I know there is no similar thing compared to column-rule, so if something similar is needed you need to set a border on the child elements (and don’t show one on :last-child)īy the nature of flex, it will always scale to the full available width.Alias for grid-gap and is according to MDN docs also supposed to be used for flex containers ( MDN Docs) gap: Defines the space between the columns and rows.For example columns: 3 200px will create a layout with three columnsĪt most, but each column will always be at least 200px wide. When using the columns shorthand (or declaring both properties), column-width acts as a min width per column but column-countĪcts as a maximum amount of columns that will be rendered. There is room for another column it will automatically create that one. The browser will evenly distribute the available width into columns of at least this min width, and if column-width defines a minimum width eachĬolumn needs to have. It is a shorthand for column-count and column-width.Ĭolumn-count allows you to define the number of columns that should be visible. The CSS columns property is responsive by design. Let’s start with this one, because it probably is the most interesting and at the same time least known version.

We will touch a flex version, a grid version and a less familiar columns property of CSS. And by fully responsive I mean a layout that is responsive without the necessity to specify

#FOUNDATION RESPONSIVE COLUMNS HOW TO#

In this short tutorial I want to demonstrate three different ways how to achieve a fully responsive column layout with

Foundation responsive columns