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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

More layout, more positioning

This section is on more layout and more positioning with flexbox. Here, we'll check out a new property, justify-content, as well as how to nest flexboxes within each other, and finally using automatic margins.

Before we get started, let's reset some of our flex properties by getting rid of our flex shorthand:

.flex-container {
margin-top: 200px;
display: flex;
}
.flex-item {
padding: 20px;
}
.flex-item2 {

}

By removing the flex shorthand, each flex item stops worrying about growing, shrinking, or what their initial main size should be:

Using the justify-content property

First up is justify-content, which is a flex container property that determines whether the content is justified - or...

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