Flexbox Properties: Most Common + Rare Properties

Flexbox Properties: Most Common + Rare Properties

Example of the most common properties in CSS Flexbox

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Here's a list of the most common properties you will use in Flexbox (from my own experience) -- try opening in a new tab for bigger version:

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Here's a list of more rare properties with a brief explanation:

1) align-content -- use this instead of align-items when you have multiple rows/columns (which you will have when flex-items have wrapped onto new lines).

2) order -- use this to change the order of flex-items. This is something you want to do sometimes when you make your project responsive. Some flex-item may then fall below another flex-item, because limited space on e.g. mobile forces everything into a 1-column layout, and you don't want that flex-item to sit below another one. This property works with a number, the lowest numbers come first in the order.

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