WEBSITE LAYOUTS MADE EASIER WITH CSS FLEXBOX

A website layout is a pattern (or framework) that defines a website’s structure. It has the role of structuring the information present on a site both for the website’s owner and for users. As a beginner, Setting out website layout can be frustrating and disturbing because one has to think of out how the page would be structured on various devices at large so as to improve the intended user's experience.

The Float and Clear properties combined together have always been one of the most used techniques in achieving layouts even though it has some fallbacks; which includes the addition of extra tags and lines of code for the clear property. But as a programmer, you have to find your way out of any challenges to make web contents to be structured as good as possible. The emergence of CSS flex makes one build a robust layout even with lesser lines of code if one can study how its properties work.

Before you can use the flex display property, be very sure u have a big container(parent) that contains one or more containers (items). Of course, you should know that every element could think of as a box, which means, one can nest an element inside another element. The flex layout is very simple to achieve simply by writing ‘display: flex’ in the parent container.

2. Flex-direction: The flex-direction property defines in which direction the container wants to stack the flex items. its value include; row|column|column-reverse|row-reverse.

3. Flex-wrap: The flex-wrap property specifies whether the flex items should wrap or not. its value include; wrap|no-wrap|wrap-reverse.

4. Flex-flow: The flex-flow property is a shorthand property for setting both the flex-direction and flex-wrap properties.

5. Justify-content: The justify-content property is used to align the flex items. Its value are: flex-start|flex-end|center|space-around|space-between|space-evenly

6. Align-items: The align-items property is used to align the flex items vertically. It’s value include: fles-start|flex-end|center|stretch|baseline

7. Align-content: The align-content property is used to align the flex lines.. its value include; flex-start|flex-end|center|stretch|space-around|space-between

Child Container Properties

2. flex-grow: The flex-grow property specifies how much a flex item will grow relative to the rest of the flex items. The value must be a number, the default value is 0.

3. flex-shrink: The flex-shrink property specifies how much a flex item will shrink relative to the rest of the flex items. The value must be a number, the default value is 1.

4. flex-basis: The flex-basis property specifies the initial length of a flex item.

5. align-self: The align-self property specifies the alignment for the selected item inside the flexible container. The align-self property overrides the default alignment set by the container’s align-items property.

6. flex: The flex property is a shorthand property for the flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis properties.

1. helps to achieve a complex layout with a lesser line of codes

2. helps to achieve responsive layout easily

3. Helps in better and easy alignments of web content

4. It saves time

5. flex layout is adaptive to unforeseen changes that might occur in future

CSS flex property has really helped in setting up a more complex layout in an efficient way and lessens programmer work on responsiveness on the different viewports. So, feel free to explore further on the properties and apply them in building a robust and responsive layout for your website.

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