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CSS Align Guides

Oh my, one of the trickier topics! If you're still confused after reading these great guides, it's not your fault, it's CSS.

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A little trick to left align last row's items with Flexbox

For those who, like me, loves working with Flexbox, you have probably encountered in the past the problem of items in the last row who don't behave quite well. Meaning by that, they don't have a left align :


Flexbox - Align Items vs Align Content.

To align or to justify..that is the question


How to Center Align Items in CSS with 4 Solid Methods.

Center aligning items has being a much-discussed topic in CSS. Beginners and sometimes professionals often find themselves googling this topic when they get stuck while trying to center align texts or elements in CSS.


The Ultimate Guide to Center Align - CSS

This blog will discuss 6 techniques (in order of adherence to best practices)that can be used to center align an element and when to use each one. Here, center align refers to placing the element at the horizontal and vertical center of its parent.


Text-Align Select (Safari Fix)

Have you ever tried to text-align a select element? Safari is not a fan (no support). The answer to this question has eluded me and seemingly the internet - so here we are with a solution.


How to align-right in Bootstrap 4

The .justify-content-end class is used on Flexbox containers to align all items on the main axis to the right. Always remember that the container using this class must have its display property set to flex. This is the .d-flex class in Bootstrap 4.


JUSTIFY-CONTENT & ALIGN-ITEMS at your first try 😊

justify-content and align-items can only be used when the display of an element is set to flex, grid or some other values.

I'd be using the display of flex


Center align things in css

Many a time I noticed that people find it very difficult to align content to the center either vertically or horizontally using CSS 😐.

So I decided to write a few ways of aligning content to the center using CSS 😃.


How to Vertically Align Anything with CSS

Here’s my three favorite ways to vertically align stuff in css.


align-items vs align-content (FR)

Dans ce cas, notre main-axis (axe principal), en rouge, représentera notre axe horizontal et cross-axis (axe transversal), en noir, représentera notre axe vertical.

C'est sur ce dernier axe que nos propriétés align-items et align-content prendront effet.


Intro to CSS Flexbox - Align Items

CSS align-items sets the default behavior for how flex items are positioned along the cross axis on the current line. Think of this as the justify-content equivalent of the cross-axis relative to flex items within a flex container.


How justify-content and align-items properties work.

Yes CSS can be tricky sometimes and with the emergence flex-box and grid, it infact has become more trickier writing advanced CSS codes. I want to quickly work you through how the justify-content and align-items properties work in flex-box; when to use them and the output you should expect to get from them.


Justify-content and Align-items in a nutshell

That's it for justify-content and align-items.

This is a part of my complete guide to Flexbox post on my website. Hopefully, You liked it, if so then do check out the complete guide on my website. You can follow me on Twitter for daily tweets about development and design. Thank u. Happy coding :)


Happy CSS Align coding!