Everything You Need To Know About Alignment In Flexbox
History Of Flexbox Alignment
For the entire history of CSS Layout, being able to properly align things on both axes seemed like it might truly be the hardest problem in web design. So the ability to properly align items and groups of items was for many of us the most exciting thing about Flexbox when it first started to show up in browsers. Alignment became as simple as two lines of CSS:
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The alignment properties that you might think of as the flexbox alignment properties are now fully defined in the Box Alignment Specification. This specification details how alignment works across the various layout contexts. This means that we can use the same alignment properties in CSS Grid as we use ...