CSS Flexbox Generator with Live Preview
Set flex-direction, justify-content, align-items, wrap and gap on the container, plus order, grow, shrink, basis and align-self per item.
align-content needs flex-wrap: wrap or wrap-reverse. With nowrap there is a single line and nothing to line up, so it is left out of the CSS below.
Live preview
Click an item to give it a size and a place of its own.
display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: flex-start; align-items: stretch; flex-wrap: nowrap; gap: 8px;
What this flexbox generator does
CSS flexbox is the one-dimensional layout model that lets a container arrange its children along a row or a column. Pick a value for each core property — flex-direction to set the main axis, justify-content to distribute items along it, align-items to line them up across it, flex-wrap to allow or prevent wrapping, and a gap in pixels for the spacing between items. Turn wrapping on and align-content decides where the wrapped lines sit across the container. Set how many items the preview holds, then give any one of them its own order, flex-grow, flex-shrink, flex-basis and align-self. A live preview of numbered boxes reflows instantly with every change, so you can see exactly how each property behaves before you copy the code.
Copy-ready CSS output
The tool prints a ready-to-paste declaration block that starts with display: flex — or display: inline-flex when you pick that — and then lists your chosen flex-direction, justify-content, align-items, flex-wrap, then align-content when wrapping is on (on nowrap it does nothing, so it is left out), then gap. Under that comes one .item-N rule for every item you gave settings of its own, and nothing at all for the ones you left alone. Drop the block straight into a class in your stylesheet or an inline style attribute on the container element. The output is deterministic, so the same selections always produce exactly the same CSS — handy for learning how the properties combine and for grabbing a correct starting point for any layout.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between justify-content and align-items?
justify-content distributes items along the main axis (the direction set by flex-direction), while align-items positions them along the cross axis. For a row, justify-content moves items left-to-right and align-items moves them top-to-bottom.
Why do some justify-content values look the same in my preview?
Values like space-between, space-around and space-evenly only differ visibly when items are smaller than the container and there is free space to distribute. With few items or a wrapping layout the spacing may look similar until there is room to spread them out.