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Dev · ishadeed.com · Wednesday, 26 August 2026

`flex-wrap: balance` kills orphaned nav items, ships in Chrome 150

A wrapped flex row often leaves one lone item stranded on a new line, so developers bolt on brittle media queries to force it back. A new `flex-wrap: balance` value, now in Chrome 150, reflows the row so the last line never holds a single orphan. Ahmad Shadeed breaks down the property and shows practical fallbacks with container queries for browsers that don't support it yet.

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