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Learning Ionic, Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning Ionic, Second Edition Hybrid mobile apps with HTML5, CSS3, and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466051
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arvind Ravulavaru Arvind Ravulavaru
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Preface 1. Angular - A Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Welcome to Ionic 3. Ionic Components and Navigation 4. Ionic Decorators and Services 5. Ionic and SCSS 6. Ionic Native 7. Building the Riderr App 8. Ionic 2 Migration Guide 9. Testing an Ionic 2 App 10. Releasing the Ionic App 11. Ionic 3 Appendix

The Ionic Grid system

To get fine-grained control of your layout, in terms of positioning the components on the page or aligning elements next to each other with consistency, you need a grid system and Ionic provides one.

The beauty of the Ionic Grid system is that it is FlexBox-based. FlexBox--or the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module--provides a box model for an optimized user interface design.

You can read more about FlexBox at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexBox/
You can find an amazing tutorial about FlexBox at:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

The advantage of a FlexBox-based grid system is that you need not have a fixed-column grid. You can define as many columns as you want inside a row and they will be automatically assigned with equal width. This way, unlike any other CSS-based grid systems, you need not worry about the sum of class names adding up to the total number of columns in the...

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