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Flexbox Playground
Experiment with every CSS Flexbox property in a live visual sandbox – toggle container and item properties and see the layout update instantly, then copy the CSS.
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Interactive Flexbox playground · live preview · all flex properties · copy CSS · add/remove items

How it works
Convert in three steps

1. Set container properties

Adjust flex-direction, justify-content, align-items, flex-wrap, and align-content on the parent container using the visual controls.

2. Configure individual items

Select any flex item and set its flex-grow, flex-shrink, flex-basis, align-self, and order values independently.

3. Copy the generated CSS

Get the complete CSS for both the container and each item - ready to paste into your stylesheet.

FAQ
Common questions
Flexbox (Flexible Box Layout) is a CSS layout model that distributes space and aligns items within a container along a single axis – either horizontally (row) or vertically (column). It solves common layout problems like centering elements, distributing space evenly between items, and building responsive single-direction layouts without floats or positioning hacks. It is one of the two primary CSS layout systems alongside CSS Grid.
Use Flexbox for one-dimensional layouts – a row of navigation links, a row of cards, a centered content block, a toolbar. Use CSS Grid for two-dimensional layouts – full page templates, grid-based galleries, or any layout where you are controlling both rows and columns simultaneously. In practice, most UIs use both: Grid for the overall page structure, Flexbox for component-level alignment.
justify-content controls alignment along the main axis – the direction flex items flow (horizontal for row, vertical for column). align-items controls alignment on the cross axis – perpendicular to the main axis. For a row direction: justify-content positions items left, right, or center horizontally; align-items positions them top, middle, or bottom vertically.
flex-grow only distributes available free space. If the flex container has no extra space (because items already fill it or the container has no defined size), flex-grow has nothing to distribute. Make sure the container has an explicit width or height, or is set to display: flex with room to grow. Also check that flex-shrink is not overriding your expectations on the other direction.
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About the Flexbox Playground
Flexbox is powerful but its property interactions are not always intuitive – changing flex-direction flips which axis justify-content and align-items operate on, and the relationship between flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis takes hands-on experimentation to internalize. This playground gives you a fully interactive Flexbox environment: a live canvas with a configurable container and adjustable items, with every relevant property exposed as a visual control. Change a property and see the layout update immediately. It is a faster way to learn Flexbox, a faster way to debug a layout that is not behaving as expected, and a convenient way to prototype component layouts before writing CSS.
Benefits
  • All container properties exposed - flex-direction, justify-content, align-items, flex-wrap, align-content.
  • Per-item controls - independently set flex-grow, flex-shrink, flex-basis, align-self, and order on each item.
  • Live canvas - every property change updates the visual layout instantly.
  • Copy-ready CSS - outputs container and item rules formatted for direct use.
Privacy
All processing runs client-side in your browser. No layout data is transmitted to any server.