Help:Wiki University Flexbox - Display Horizontal

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Browser placement To see how the elements can adapt to any devise using CCS3 Flexbox, we will use the following example as an illustration. Here are four color boxes with text.

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Placing objects in a row display:flex First illustration of the capabilities of Flexbox coding is the ease of being able to place these four colored boxes in a row.


 * Step one - We need to place these four boxes into a  tag container.  Consider the div tag container as the parent and the boxes as the children of the parent.
 * Step two - We will next add the first Flexbox coding to the inline styling of the opening div tag to have the color boxes line in a row:

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 * NOTICE that the boxes are now in a row with only two words of code.
 * NOTICE that the boxes are on the left end of the container
 * NOTICE that a red border is in place around the boxes so you can see the relationship between the boxes and their container.
 * NOTICE that the width of the boxes are controlled by the content in the boxes.

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 * NOTICE that the boxes are now in a row with only two words of code.

Moving boxes around horizontally - justify-content:flex-end What if we want to move the boxes to the right side of the horizontal space. Here is the next Flexbox attribute: flex-content:flex-end.

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 * NOTICE that the boxes are now in a row but to the right edge of the page or container.

Moving boxes to the middle - justify-content:center

What if we want to move the boxes to the middle of the horizontal space. Here is the next Flexbox attribute: flex-content:center.

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 * NOTICE that the boxes are now together in the middle of the contain or page.

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 Exercises

1. Take these five boxes and arrange them in a row: Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 2. Place these five boxes so they are in the middle of the page. 3. Place them on the right side of the page

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 Quick Quiz

1. To put items at the beginning of a row, you need to use "justify-content:left-end"?. A. True B. False 2. To place items in the middle of a page you need to use you use: "justify-content:middle?" A. True B. False 3. To place items on the right side of a page you need to use "justify-content:right-end?" A. True B. False

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