CSS Flexbox
CSS Flexbox is a powerful layout module designed to help developers create flexible and responsive web layouts with ease. It allows items within a container to be automatically arranged and adjusted based on the available space, making it particularly useful for responsive design. Here are the key concepts of Flexbox:
- Flex container and flex items: The parent element becomes a flex container when
display: flex
ordisplay: inline-flex
is applied. The children of this container become flex items and are arranged according to Flexbox rules. - Main axis and cross axis: The main axis is the primary direction in which flex items are laid out (default is horizontal). The cross-axis is perpendicular to the main axis.
Figure 8.11 shows how flex items relate to a flex container:
Figure 8.11: Flexbox schema
To make the most of CSS Flexbox, let’s delve deeper into its properties and explore how to use them effectively.