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Flexify
July 13, 2008 - 9:09pm — tilesFlexify 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:
