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Centering Elements with Flexbox

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The biggest CSS headache is "How do I vertically center something". Throw away your migraine pills, it's now been solved with Flexbox!

.parent {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
}
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Keeping this code note super short. Because I'll be spending the entire next month posting about Flexbox on my Twitter and Instagram Account!

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Abdullah Furkan Özbek

That's great Samantha. Flexbox is really amazing to learn.

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Samantha Ming

Absolutely! I think it’s a must know at this point! 😄 Hope you will be following the new series! 😆

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Abdullah Furkan Özbek

I will 😅

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Lucas H.

Thank you! <3

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Samantha Ming

You’re welcome 😊

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Tineyi Takawira • Edited

Thanks for this!

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Samantha Ming

You’re welcome! 😊

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Nicola

You have different ways to handle this, I'll give you a cool tip:

Using place-[what] instead of align and justify:

.fully--centered {
  display: flex;
  place-content: center;
  place-items: center;
}

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this is equal to:

.fully--centered {
  display: flex;
  align-content: center;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  justify-items: center;
}

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But with less css, this is cool when you have to define different complex flexbox layouts, and you want to save some lines of css.

CONS: obiviously IE doesn't support this shorthand.

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Abdullah Furkan Özbek

That sounds amazing

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Rae Liu

Thanks for the tip!!! I didn't know place- before. A note for developers who are still working on IE - it doesn't support on either Edge or IE

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Nicola

I know this is a big mess, but fortunately I've maded a mixin to handle this:

dev.to/nicolalc/a-mixin-to-rule-th...

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Samantha Ming

Whoa!! Nice one! I’ll add this to the code notes 👏 thanks for sharing 😊

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Samantha Ming

Super cool! Thanks for sharing! 🤩

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Ryan Smith

Thanks for the tip, I did not know about the place- shorthands!