Establishing a new block formatting context using overflow: hidden;

Today Vasilis tweeted a link to a very nice (and old, apparently) CSS trick: Here's your monthly reminder that this is an obscure, but very handy feature of CSS overflow. http://t.co/4qNriVlB5y — Vasilis (@vasilis) February 13, 2014 Overflow does some cool things you should know about. Creates Block Formatting Context Clears Floats The second feature …

Pinterest’s div stacking layout algorithm

The number of columns adjusts to fit more/less on browser resize and the vertical stacking is not dependent on adjacent column heights. The source code shows that each div is positioned absolute. I would love to know how to accomplish this. What technology is used to generate pinterest.com’s absolute div stacking layout? →