Bricklayer

Lightweight & independent cascading grid layout library. Inspired and a lighter alternative to Masonry

Play with example

Why Bricklayer?

Simpler than any other cascading grid layout tools.
Lightweight, no fat. (1.5KB gzipped)
No frameworks required, but if you use jQuery it integrates itself as a plugin.
Responsive support with no glitch.
Easy configuration.
Static positioning, no inline styles.

Installation

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//rawgit.com/ademilter/bricklayer/master/dist/bricklayer.css">

<script src="//rawgit.com/ademilter/bricklayer/master/dist/bricklayer.min.js"></script>

If you are using modular JavaScript, you can use NPM or Bower

npm install bricklayer # using npm
bower install bricklayer # or using bower

Usage

Create a simple list.

<div class="bricklayer">
  <div>Your item</div>
  <div>Your another item</div>
  <div>Your another but long item</div>
  <div>Your another but very short item</div>
  <div>Your one more item</div>
  <div>Your smallest item</div>
</div>

Define bricklayer column size:

@media screen and (min-width: 1200px) {
  .bricklayer-column-sizer {
    /* divide by 3. */
    width: 33.3%;
  }
}

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  .bricklayer-column-sizer {
    /* divide by 2. */
    width: 50%;
  }
}

Make them bricks using Bricklayer class.

var bricklayer = new Bricklayer(document.querySelector('.bricklayer'))

Methods

Add bricks dynamically

bricklayer.append(
  "<div>My awesome content</div>"
)

You can also add multiple bricks at once:

bricklayer.prepend([
  "<div>My awesome content</div>",
  "<div>My another awesome but very long content</div>"
])

Using with jQuery

Bricklayer integrates itself into jQuery if it founds any jQuery instance on page.

var bricklayer = $("#bricklayer").bricklayer()

bricklayer.data('bricklayer').append([
  // items
])

Events

You can add listeners to Bricklayer to have full control. They allows you to create more extensible layouts. You can use these events especially for animations. Please see examples.

bricklayer.on('beforeAppend', function (e) {
  var itemElement = e.detail.item
  var columnElement = e.detail.column
  // `itemElement` will be appended to the end of `columnElement`
})

bricklayer.on('beforePrepend', function (e) {
  var itemElement = e.detail.item
  var columnElement = e.detail.column
  // `itemElement` will be prepended to the top of `columnElement`
})

bricklayer.on('afterAppend', function (e) {
  var itemElement = e.detail.item
  var columnElement = e.detail.column
  // `itemElement` is appended to the end of `columnElement`
})

bricklayer.on('afterPrepend', function (e) {
  var itemElement = e.detail.item
  var columnElement = e.detail.column
  // `itemElement` is prepended to the top of `columnElement`
})

bricklayer.on('breakpoint', function (e) {
  var columnCount = e.detail.columnCount
  // In every breakpoint, this event will be fired with the count of columns
})

Browser Support

This plugin works seamlessly with these browsers:

Safari 9.0.2
Firefox 43.0.4
Chrome 49

Please add more and open a pull request if you tested successfully on more browsers.

License

Bricklayer - Cascading Grid Layouts

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.