Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.
This package has all the documentation and demos to get you started.
View this project live at http://masonry.desandro.com.
You can download a zip of all the flat HTML files from http://meta.metafizzy.co/files/masonry-site.zip.
The documentation and demo pages are generated using Jekyll. With Jekyll installed, you can clone this repo and run Jekyll from Terminal:
git clone https://github.com/desandro/masonry.git
cd masonry/
jekyll --server --auto
Then view the live site at http://localhost:4000.
The module branch has just jquery.masonry.js and jquery.masonry.min.js, perfect for adding to your repo as a submodule.
git submodule add https://github.com/desandro/masonry.git
cd masonry/
git checkout module
git pull origin module
cd ../
git submodule update --initThen you can reference masonry/jquery.masonry.min.js within your own project.
To pull in the lastest version of the masonry submodule:
cd masonry/
git pull origin moduleCopyright (c) 2012 David DeSandro