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Flexify

Submitted by tiles on July 13, 2008 - 9:09pm

Flexify is a jQuery plugin which allows web authors to create fluid, full-page, flexible layouts for their web applications. Overlaying the CSS box model, Flexify lets you specify flexible dimensions for content, margin, padding, borders, or position, by taking up all available space on a page. Additionally, Flexify can define whether an elements displays its children vertically (the default) or horizontally, creating rows or columns of elements.

Introduction

Flexify adds the flow and flex functions to jQuery. The former allows you to specify whether an element has vertical or horizontal 'flow', changing the orientation of how its children are displayed. The latter lets you specify which CSS properties should 'flex' and take up all available space.

Example

Using the following page: