hacksla.blogg.se - Css flex alignment

align-content works only on multi-line containers and has no effect on single line containers.

justify-content and align-items are similar in their behviour, the difference being that justify-content works on the the main axis while align-items works on the cross axis.

justify-content works on the Main Axis and align-* properties work on the Cross Axis.

Now that we know the jargon, we can rewrite the TL DR as. Multi-line Containers: Flex containers whose flex-wrap property is set to wrap By default every flex container is a single-line container. Single-line Container: Flex containers whose flex-wrap property is set to nowrap. Technically called the block-axis (just like block elements)Ĭross Axis: The axis perpendicular to the main axis is called the cross axis. flex-direction:column means that elements are aligned along the vertical axis i.e. Technically, these elements are aligned along the inline-axis (just like inline elements).

flex-direction:row means that elements inside the flex container are aligned next to each other. Main Axis: The axis defined by the flex-direction property.Flex Items: Direct children of the flex containers are called flex items.Flex Container: An element on which the display value is set to flex.The rest of the article is just a brain dump of everything I learned while trying to figure out the above. This means that this property has no effect on single-line containers. align-content effects the alignment accross lines of a flex-container.align-items effect the alignment of items on the current line.What separates align-items and align-content? See the Pen Align items vs Justify Content by Anirudh Varma If you have set your flex-direction to column, then align-* properties work on the horizontal axis and justify-content works on the vertical axis.If you have set your flex-direction to row, then justify-content works on the horizontal axis and align-* properties work on the vertical axis.To align or to justify.that is the questionįor a very long time, I have been trying to figure out what is the difference between align-items, align-content & justify-content and how they work or more importantly when they work. If you have worked with modern CSS, whether you are rolling your own or using a frameworks like Bootstrap & Foundation, chances are you are using Flexbox for layout and alignment.

This post was originally posted on my blogįlexbox is awesome.