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# Flex item
## Overview
A flexible container item designed to be used within layout\_\_flex.liquid for creating customizable layouts. Supports fit, fill, or custom responsive widths, alignment controls, spacing, optional sticky positioning, and optional load or scroll animations.
## Block limitations
This is a private block. It is intended for use only within specific parent blocks and should not be added directly to sections.
## Common use cases
* Use with layout\_\_flex.liquid to create flexible grid-like layouts
* Choose **Width** **Fill** so a column grows, **Fit** for natural width, or **Custom** with mobile and desktop percentages
* Turn on **Show advanced settings** to adjust device visibility, sticky behavior, or entrance motion
* Adjust gap size to maintain consistent spacing between nested elements
## Compatible blocks
The following blocks can be nested within this block:
* All theme blocks
* App blocks
## Block settings
### General
| Setting | Description | Options |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Show advanced settings | Reveals device visibility, sticky layout, sticky position, and load or scroll animations | Checkbox (default: false) |
### Spacing
| Setting | Description | Options |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enable padding | Adds padding around the flex item content | Checkbox (default: false) |
| Enable vertical spacing | Adds vertical padding (top and bottom) | Checkbox (default: true) |
| Gap size | Spacing between child blocks | • None
• Default (default)
• XS
• SM
• MD
• LG
• XL
|
### Color
| Setting | Description | Options |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Type | Custom scheme vs preset surface pair | • Custom
• Base (default)
Visible when Enable inheritance is off
|
| Color scheme | Background and text | Color scheme picker
Visible when type is Custom and Enable inheritance is off
|
| Color scheme | Background and text | • Body background
• Body foreground
• Accent 1–3
• Shade 1–3
• Blur
• Transparent (default)
Visible when type is Base and Enable inheritance is off
|
| Color border | Border color | • Subtle (default)
• Strong
• None
Visible when Border position is not None, type is Base, and Enable inheritance is off
|
| Enable inheritance | Inherit colors from a parent block | Checkbox (default: false) |
### Style
| Setting | Description | Options |
| --------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Border position | Controls where borders appear | • None (default)
• Top
• Bottom
• Left
• Right
• Top and bottom
• Left and right
• All
|
### Layout
| Setting | Description | Options |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Width | How the item sizes in the flex row | • Fit (content width)
• Fill (grow to use free space)
• Custom (default) — use mobile and desktop sliders
|
| Width mobile | Width on small screens | 5–100 %, step 5 (default: 80 %)
Visible when Width is Custom
|
| Width desktop | Width on large screens | 5–100 %, step 5 (default: 40 %)
Visible when Width is Custom
|
| Vertical alignment | Aligns nested content vertically in the item | • Top
• Middle
• Bottom (default)
|
| Enable sticky layout | Enables sticky positioning for this item | Checkbox (default: false)
Visible when Show advanced settings is on
|
| Sticky position | Edge the sticky item pins to | • None (default)
• Top
• Bottom
Visible when Show advanced settings and Enable sticky layout are on
|
### Display
| Setting | Description | Options |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Visibility | Device visibility | • All (default)
• Mobile only
• Desktop only
Visible when Show advanced settings is on
|
| Load animation | Animation when the block first loads | • None (default)
• Fade
• Fade up
• Offset fade
• Offset fade up
Visible when Show advanced settings is on and Scroll animation is None
|
| Scroll animation | Animation tied to scroll position | • None (default)
• Fade
• Fade up
• Fade down
• Slide left
• Slide right
• Zoom
Visible when Show advanced settings is on and Load animation is None
|
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