These days, there is a glorious savior: Flexbox!įlexbox is mostly a fancy name for using the CSS display: flex. Using flexbox and CSS3, this can be achieved in just about 2 lines of CSS. It involved various hacks that may or may not have worked with specific versions of specific browsers of that time period. 2007), getting something to vertically align within an element or have a particular element span the remaining percent of a layout was quite the task. Sign up for my newsletter here.Before flexbox, in old days of yore (i.e. Would you like to be notified when I release a new course? You'll get early bird discounts. So I created a CSS course to help you avoid the same mistake.
I was learning about advanced JavaScript topics when I couldn't even implement basic layouts in CSS.
I believe it's the highest-ROI skill you can master.īefore I mastered CSS, I lost a ton of time & energy fiddling around with CSS. I wish we had 'justify-self' in Flexbox.īy the way, I think CSS is the 'bottleneck' to most websites & web apps. So there is no 'justify-self' property in Flexbox, because 'margin: auto' already takes care of what we want. The margin will now take up the space on top of the selected element, pushing itself downwards. Or for 1 individual flex-item, use 'margin' with 'auto': Then you need to use justify-content to do vertical alignment for all flex-items: This is the default layout when you use flex-direction: column: Note that when you use flex-direction: column, the 'align'-properties will now work for the horizontal axis instead of the vertical axis. Or use align-self: end to make it sit at the bottom:
This was for aligning ALL flex-items vertically, but what if we just want to vertically align an individual flex-item? We can use align-self for that: This is because Flexbox and CSS Grid are being harmonized so that we can use the same properties in both systems, so the 'flex-' and 'grid-' prefixes are being dropped. However, 'flex-end' is being phased out and the future is 'end'. Note that we used the value 'end' here, but 'flex-end' still has better browser support. Or maybe we want them all to sit at the bottom: For example, if we want them to sit in the center: We can use align-items to determine where along the vertical axis all flex-items should sit. To understand vertical aligning in Flexbox, let's start from the default layout in Flexbox: If you haven't mastered both of them yet, I highly recommend going through my CSS Course. You need to master both Flexbox and CSS Grid in order to professionally build modern websites & web apps.
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