A basic layout, which supports positioning of child widgets in a ‘flowing’ manner, starting at the container’s top/left position, placing children left to right (like a HBox) until the there’s no remaining room for the next child. When out of room on the current line of elements, a new line is started, cleared below the tallest child of the preceeding line – a bit like using ‘float’ in CSS, except that a new line wraps all the way back to the left.

This image shows a gallery implemented using a Flow layout.

• Reversing children order
• Manual line breaks
• Horizontal alignment of lines
• Vertical alignment of individual widgets within a line
• Margins with horizontal margin collapsing
• Horizontal and vertical spacing
• Height for width calculations
• Auto-sizing

The Flow layout imitates the way text is rendered. Each child is placed horizontally next to each other. If the remaining space is too small a new line is created and the child is placed at the start of the new line.

It is possible to specify a horizontal alignment for all children. This is equivalent to center, left or right alignment of text blocks. Further it is possible to specify the vertical alignment of each child in a line.

This layout supports height for width, which means that given a fixed width it can calculate the required height.

• lineBreak (Boolean): If set to true a forced line break will happen after this child widget.

Here are some links that demonstrate the usage of the layout:

• Flow layout demo

Here is a link to the API of the layout manager:
qx.ui.layout.Flow