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Mastering CSS

You're reading from   Mastering CSS A guided journey through modern CSS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281585
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rich Finelli Rich Finelli
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. CSS Foundations FREE CHAPTER 2. Ramping Up 3. Creating a Page Layout with Floats 4. Creating Buttons with Modular, Reusable CSS Classes, and CSS3 5. Creating the Main Navigation and Drop-Down Menu 6. Becoming Responsive 7. Web Fonts 8. Workflow for HiDPI Devices 9. Flexbox, Part 1 10. Flexbox, Part 2 11. Wrapping Up

Overview of the flexible box layout module

What is flexbox? Commonly referred to as flexbox, it's real name is flexible box layout module. It provides a more efficient way to lay out, align, and distribute space among child elements of a parent element, even when their size and quantity is unknown or dynamic. Flexbox defines a whole new layout mode.

Traditionally, there is block mode, which was designed for document layout. There is inline mode, which was designed for text; table mode, which was designed for tabular data (tables); and positioned mode, which was designed for explicit positioning without much regard for other elements around it. Now there is flexbox mode. So what does flexbox do? It can do a lot of really useful things. At the core, flexbox is for layout and alignment. The following list illustrates its more common use cases:

  • Layout of elements vertically...
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