Tailwind CSS Grid Auto Flow
Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025
This class accepts more than one value in tailwind CSS all the properties are covered as in class form. It is the alternative of CSS grid-auto-flow property and it is used to specify how auto-placed items get flowed into the grid items using Tailwind CSS.
Grid Auto Flow:
- grid-flow-row
- grid-flow-col
- grid-flow-row-dense
- grid-flow-col-dense
grid-flow-row: Auto-placement algorithm place the items by filling each row in turn, adding new rows as necessary.
Syntax:
<element class="grid-flow-row"> Contents... </element>
Example:
HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Tailwind grid-flow-row Class</title> <link href= "https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@1.9.6/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="text-center"> <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <b>Tailwind CSS grid-flow-row Class</b> <div class = "m-8 grid grid-flow-row gap-1"> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">1</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">2</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">3</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">4</div> </div> </body> </html>
Output:
grid-flow-col: Auto-placement algorithm place the items by filling each column in turn, adding new columns as necessary.
Syntax:
<element class="grid-flow-col"> Contents... </element>
Example:
HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Tailwind grid-flow-col Class</title> <link href= "https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@1.9.6/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="text-center"> <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <b>Tailwind CSS grid-flow-col Class</b> <div class = "m-8 grid grid-flow-col gap-1"> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">1</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">2</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">3</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">4</div> </div> </body> </html>
Output:
grid-flow-row-dense: Specifying that the auto-placement algorithm uses a “dense” packing algorithm for the column.
Syntax:
<element class="grid-flow-row-dense"> Contents... </element>
Example:
HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Tailwind grid-flow-row-dense Class</title> <link href= "https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@1.9.6/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="text-center"> <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <b>Tailwind CSS grid-flow-row-dense Class</b> <div class = "m-8 grid grid-flow-row-dense gap-1"> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">1</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">2</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">3</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">4</div> </div> </body> </html>
Output:
grid-flow-col-dense: Specifying that the auto-placement algorithm uses a “dense” packing algorithm for rows.
Syntax:
<element class="grid-flow-col-dense">..</element>
Example:
HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Tailwind grid-flow-col-dense Class</title> <link href= "https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@1.9.6/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="text-center"> <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold"> GeeksforGeeks </h1> <b>Tailwind CSS grid-flow-col-dense Class</b> <div class = "m-8 grid grid-flow-col-dense gap-1"> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">1</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">2</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">3</div> <div class = "bg-green-300 rounded-lg">4</div> </div> </body> </html>
Output:
