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HTML

<div class="panel-container">
  <div class="header">

  </div>
  <div class="tags-panel">
    <div class="image-container">
      <div class="tag-preview-container">
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="image-container">

    </div>
    <div class="image-container">

    </div>
    <div class="image-container">

    </div>
  </div>
</div>

SCSS

.panel-container {
	width: 400px;
  height: 400px;
  position: relative;
  margin: auto;
  .header {
    width: 100%;
    height: 40px;
    background-color: green;
  }
  .tags-panel {
    position: absolute;
    background-color: red;
    top: 40px;
    bottom: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    display: flex;
    flex-flow: row wrap;
    align-content: flex-start;
  }
}


.image-container {
  flex: 0 0 33%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin-top: 5px;
  margin-left: 1px;
  height: 80px;
  background-color: yellow;
  position: relative;
  .tag-preview-container {
    background-color: black;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    z-index: 2;
    opacity: 0.5;
  }
  }