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The peculiar magic of flexbox and auto margins

# July 27, 2018 By Robin Rendle

In front-end development, there are often times when I know that I don’t know something. I might know enough to know what CSS to search for, but I have absolutely no idea how to use it or what the right syntax is. Somehow, in my head, there appears to be a filing cabinet that’s entirely empty, and when I try to look something up, all I find is an almost illegible sticky note instead.

One topic like this (which is an area I’ve sort of always known about but never really understood) is how auto margins and flexbox interact with one another.

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Align SVG Icons to Text and Say Goodbye to Font Icons

# January 28, 2017 By Chris Coyier

Elliot Dahl:

At Pivotal we've created an SVG icon system with React for use on our suite of products. This article is about my approach to styling the SVG icon system with CSS to make it easy and effective to use.

Alignment and icons (of any sort) will probably always be a bit tricky. It depends on two things that will be different on every site: the font and the icons. Elliot was able to get perfect alignment with Arial by pulling the icons down with bottom: -0.125em; because Arial sites right along the baseline and the icons themselves were designed with a 12.5% ring of white space around the edges. It's a fairly common practice to design SVG icons with space along the edges (as annoying as it might be for alignment) because without the space, you might get awkward clipping on the edges with certain browsers/resolutions/zooming/etc (sorry I don't have more detail handy).

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