Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance

Title “Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance”, date “Aug 25, 2026”, author’s photo, a panel “Connect your favorite accounts” with social network icons, and a CSS code block.

Ahmad Shadeed starts from a real Buffer layout where the last flex line is left with a single orphaned item, then walks through five fixes: container queries, a conditional clamp() on max-width, display: contents, a pseudo-element separator, and flex-wrap: balance from Chrome 150, which needs one declaration. The companion flex-line-count property forces a minimum number of lines.

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