The Latest in the “How are we going to do masonry?” Debate: Apple Says “Item Flow”

Chris CoyierApril 11, 2025About 2 min

The Latest in the “How are we going to do masonry?” Debate: Apple Says “Item Flow” 관련

Last we checked in with how the web platform was planning on helping us with “masonry” layout, it was a versus battle between “just use grid” and “make a new layout type”. Now Apple folks have an idea: a new shorthand property called item-flow. Nothing is decided here (I don’t think), but it seems very […]

Last we checked in with how the web platform was planning on helping us with “masonry” layout, it was a versus battle between “just use grid” and “make a new layout type”. Now Apple folks have an idea: a new shorthand property called item-flow. Nothing is decided here (I don’t think), but it seems very sensible. I like how it has meaning to multiple layout modes, potentially opening up new possibilities instead of masonry alone. They are going to elaborate in a future post, but it sounds like item-pack: collapse; is the road to masonry specifically, perhaps across multiple layout modes.

I’ll repoint to my feeling that reading-order is very related and also opens possibility in that we can use what we’ve already got in broader ways without negative accessibility implications.

The Latest in the “How are we going to do masonry?” Debate: Apple Says “Item Flow”