Using flexbox to make responsive widgets without media queries.

With one fixed width column (unless its on its own row) [in dark blue ].

Allows for widget layout where parts of the widget have minimum widths and when…:

1. …we don't know the placement of the widget on a page: whether the widget would be in a main column or a side column
2. …we don't know the width of the viewport, ever.
3. …we don't know which pre-existing media queries exist

Various width containers

Example use case Flexbox responsive sign up widget. No media queries

If anything is unclear, leave me a comment :)

Get changing that browser window width already

Pros

• No media queries
• Items can be set to wrap when they reach their minimum width.

Cons

• Predicting exactly when [viewport width] something will wrap is tricky (math!). E.g. when something wraps, you also want a different text size (this is a P.I.T.A. to achieve without media queries to orchestrate changes to properties other than width).

Container 100% width

Container 80% width

Container 60% width

Container 40% width

Container 20% width

Nesting the HTML