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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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Preface 1. CSS Foundations 2. Ramping Up FREE CHAPTER 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

Changing the display order of flex items

In this section, we'll talk about how we can change the display order of flex items and how this can be helpful for responsive web design. We'll also talk about how this impacts web accessibility.

At wider screen widths, the content is displayed horizontally: first with the octopus, then the crab, and then the whale:

At narrower device widths, the content is displayed in the same order, just vertically, as shown in the following screenshot:

In both the cases, the display order is identical to the source order, and this makes sense in this scenario.

Let's do something different here. Let's say we're working with a designer who wants to feature the crab this week and give it visual priority over the octopus and whale. That's what we have done here. I've added a little extra to the HTML and CSS to achieve...

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