CSS Flexbox Fundamentals - A Beginner's Guide

TLDRLearn the basics of CSS Flexbox and how to use it to create flexible layouts. Understand properties like flex-direction, justify-content, align-items, and flex-wrap.

Key insights

🎨CSS Flexbox allows easy creation of flexible layouts for web pages.

➡️The flex-direction property determines the direction of the flex items.

🔀The flex-wrap property controls whether flex items should wrap to multiple lines.

🔛The justify-content property is used to align flex items horizontally within the flex container.

🔝The align-items property is used to align flex items vertically within the flex container.

Q&A

What is CSS Flexbox?

CSS Flexbox is a layout module that allows easy creation of flexible layouts for web pages.

What is the flex-direction property?

The flex-direction property determines the direction of the flex items within the flex container.

What is the flex-wrap property?

The flex-wrap property controls whether flex items should wrap to multiple lines when there is not enough space.

What is the justify-content property used for?

The justify-content property is used to align flex items horizontally within the flex container.

What is the align-items property used for?

The align-items property is used to align flex items vertically within the flex container.

Timestamped Summary

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hello and welcome hi i'm dave this tutorial is part of a beginner css series i'll be using the chrome web browser the visual studio code editor and the live server extension for visual studio code to view the web page

00:25let's move on to css flexbox fundamentals we'll be learning the css properties that you'll use most frequently when working with flexbox

02:28we're starting out by bringing in the roboto font from google fonts and we have some basic css styles for the body element including a min-height of 100 viewport units and padding to push down the main container

03:35the main container has a max width of 800 pixels and a minimum height of 400 pixels with margin set to auto to center it horizontally

05:43we can use the justify-content property to align the flex items horizontally within the flex container

06:52we can use the align-items property to align the flex items vertically within the flex container

09:18the flex-wrap property controls whether flex items should wrap to multiple lines when there is not enough space

10:50the align-content property aligns the rows in the flex container when there is extra space