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Promoted Links - Wrap and size tiles with Client Side Rendering

SharePoint 2013 introduces Promoted Links list and the web part is unbelievable hit with my client users. Anyone who has seen it wants it in their team/portal sites. With increase in usage comes new requirements. And so the requirement did come, for reducing the size of promoted link tiles just so it fits into a web part zone of a custom page layout that was being used. User was adding 3 tiles and the third tile was displayed only partially and a header with scroll buttons was displayed for navigation. Users would prefer to see full 3 tiles in the row. If there are more than 3 items in the list, then they would prefer that the tiles be wrapped to the next row.    Picture below shows out of the box Promoted Links output. There are 6 items in the list. Notice that the Green tile is truncated: To display the 3 full tiles in a row within the web part zone required that the tile size be reduced. Promoted links are rendered using Client Side Rendering ...