I remember when I first started to work with flexbox that the world looked like flexible boxes to me. It’s not that I forgot how floats, inline-block, or any other layout mechanisms work, I just found myself reaching for flexbox …
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 …
Una Kravets shows how to make layouts in CSS Grid with flexbox fallbacks for browsers that don’t support those grid properties just yet. Una writes:
…CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support users of IE11 and below,
I was talking with a pal the other day and moaning about flexbox for the millionth time because I had momentarily forgotten the difference between the justify-content and align-items properties.
“How do I center an element horizontally with flex again?” …
A fascinating little tech demo by Roman Komarov that allows for clickable table sorting entirely in CSS. It’s a combination of inline CSS custom properties, the order property, and calc().
This demo sparked a ton of conversation about accessibility, …
MDN released a comprehensive guide to Flexbox with new and updated materials by Rachel Andrew. The guide includes 11 posts demonstrating layouts, use cases and everything you could possibly want or need to know on the topic. All of the …
No. Well. Mostly No.
Grid is much newer than Flexbox and has a bit less browser support. That’s why it makes perfect sense if people are wondering if CSS grid is here to replace Flexbox.
To put a point on …
I saw an interesting take on off-canvas navigation the other day over on The New Tropic. It wasn’t the off-canvas part so much. It was how the elements within the nav took up space. They stretched out to take …
The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right.
That’s what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It’s a pretty simple pattern, but like all things web design, it can …
The purpose of a sticky footer is that it “sticks” to the bottom of the browser window. But not always, if there is enough content on the page to push the footer lower, it still does that. But if the …
Two sentences from Rachel Andrew that explain when to reach for which layout choice:
…Flexbox is essentially for laying out items in a single dimension – in a row OR a column. Grid is for layout of items in two
