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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 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

Vendor prefixes

Let's talk about vendor prefixes. In this section, we'll talk about browser support for flexbox and how we should add vendor prefixes to our flexbox CSS in order to get deeper flexbox support. We'll also talk about something called Autoprefixer, which helps us add those prefixes.

Flexbox support starts at IE10 and later version if we use the -ms- vendor prefix. But this might not be the only vendor prefix you want to add since the W3C specification has actually changed since it was first implemented in browsers. When it was implemented, the syntax and property names were different from that they are today. To get deep browser support, we can use an older syntax combined with the newer syntax to support some of the early adopting browsers.

Let's update our original ruleset where we first added flexbox, which was our .columns:

.columns {
display...
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