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Tanmay Naik
Tanmay Naik

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Implementing Flexbox with SCSS mixins

CSS and HTML

I was scouring the internet for a good mixin for flexbox but I would always come across mixins like these,

@mixin flexbox() {
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -moz-box;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: flex;
}
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with a mixin for every possible property,

@mixin justify-content($justify) {
  -webkit-justify-content: $justify;
     -moz-justify-content: $justify;
      -ms-justify-content: $justify;
          justify-content: $justify;
            -ms-flex-pack: $justify;
}
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While this may work for a lot of people, I still felt that it could be made simpler, or "DRY'er". I'm pretty sure someone must have done something like this before, but I couldn't find it. So after a little bit of struggling around with SCSS mixins and functions, I came up with this,

More functions can be created and extended into the mixin such as flex-direction, flex-wrap, flex-grow, etc. with the @content directive in a similar way. It can also be used on properties that use the same values like justify-self or align-self. I will be updating this post with a github repo for all the functions and mixins soon.


Would love to know if anyone finds it useful. Thanks.

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