Freetile

Freetile is inspired by Masonry, vGrid and Wookmark. However, it allows for any size of elements to be packed without using a fixed-size column grid, so you don't have to worry about specifying a column width appropriate to the size of your elements.

Freetile screenshot 1

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Online
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
Discontinued

Last update was in December 2016.

-
No reviews
2likes
0comments
0news articles

Features

Suggest and vote on features
No features, maybe you want to suggest one?

 Tags

Freetile News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent activities

Show all activities

Freetile information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    4 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Development

Popular alternatives

View all
Freetile was added to AlternativeTo by Paracetamol on and this page was last updated .
No comments or reviews, maybe you want to be first?
Post comment/review

What is Freetile?

Freetile is a plugin for jQuery that enables the organization of webpage content in an efficient, dynamic and responsive layout.

It can be applied to a container element and it will attempt to arrange it's children in a layout that makes optimal use of screen space, by "packing" them in a tight arrangement.

Features:

Freetile is inspired by similar, existing efforts such as Masonry, vGrid and Wookmark. However, it allows for any size of elements to be packed without using a fixed-size column grid, so you don't have to worry about specifying a column width appropriate to the size of your elements.

The algorithm that evaluates each possible insertion position is easily customizable, allowing for different preferences to be expressed, e.g. a preference to left- or right-alignment of elements, or proximity between certain elements.

A smart animation routine allows distinguishing between elements that is meaningful to be animated and ones that are not (e.g. elements that have been just added to the arrangement, or those that are not visible). Special classes allow for explicitly limiting animation to select elements.