Reputation: 3323

CSS Clear after every nth-child

I have multiple items with same width inside a container. Because of different heights of the elements, there is problem with the alignment, you can see in image below.

I want to clear after every 3rd item without changing the html markup, so that the 4th item goes to the next row. I'm trying to add nth-child(3):after, but does not seem to work.

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Here's the code:

HTML:

<div class="list">
    <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
    <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </div>
    <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
    <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
    <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
</div>

CSS:

.item:nth-child(3):after{
    content: "."; 
    display: block; 
    height: 0; 
    clear: both; 
    visibility: hidden;
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/KPXyw/

Upvotes: 47

Answers (7)

Dirk Wolke

Reputation: 1

You can use:

.list {
  display:flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  ...
}

See below:

.list {
  width: 300px;
  overflow: hidden;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.item {
  float: left;
  width: 90px;
  background: yellow;
  margin-right: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.item:nth-child(3) {
  background: brown;
}
.item:nth-child(3):after {
  content: ".";
  display: block;
  height: 0;
  clear: both;
  visibility: hidden;
}

<div class="list">
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
</div>

Upvotes: -1

w3debugger

Reputation: 2102

sabof is right. But It will be great if you use display: inline-block instead of float:left. Please see below for example.

.list {
  width: 300px;
  font-size: 0;
}
.item {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 90px;
  font-size: 16px;
  background: yellow;
  margin-right: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  vertical-align: top;
}

<div class="list">
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</div>
  <div class="item">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Siddharth Nagar

Reputation: 412

Use below code

.item:nth-child(4){clear:both;}

Upvotes: -2

Kawinesh S K

Reputation: 3220

.item:nth-child(3n+1){
    clear:left
}

Updated Fiddle

Upvotes: 7

Deepu Sasidharan

Reputation: 5309

try this its working

.list{
    width: 300px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.item{
   float: left;
    width: 90px;
    background: yellow;
    margin-right: 5px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.item:nth-child(4){
    //background: brown;
    clear:both;
}

these only need.

Upvotes: -1