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The align-items property: flex-start | flex-end
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  • 1. The display: flex property, flex item
  • 2. The flex-direction property, main axis
  • 3. The flexbox cross axis
  • 4. The justify-content property, alignment along the main axis
  • 5. The justify-content property: flex-start | flex-end
  • 6. The justify-content property: space-between | space-around
  • 7. The align-items property, alignment along the cross axis
  • 8. The align-items property: flex-start | flex-end
  • 9. The align-items: baseline property
  • 10. The align-self property, or selfish alignment
  • 11. The align-self: baseline property
  • 12. Test: Creating a simple palette
  • 13. The flex-wrap property, overflow of flex items
  • 14. The flex-wrap property, reverse overflow
  • 15. The align-content property, alignment of flex container lines
  • 16. The align-content property: stretch and align-items
  • 17. The align-content property: non-stretch and align-items
  • 18. The align-content property, remaining values
  • 19. The order property, the sequence number of the flex item
  • 20. Test: Creating a more complicated palette
  • 21. Perfect centering by assigning margin: auto to the flex container
  • 22. Perfect centering, flex alignment
  • 23. The adaptive horizontal menu, part 1
  • 24. The adaptive horizontal menu, part 2
  • 25. The adaptive horizontal menu, part 3
  • 26. The vertical row of icons
  • 27. The vertical row of icons, part 2
  • 28. The vertical row of icons, part 3
  • 29. Ordering elements with CSS
  • 30. Vertically aligning blocks using a flexbox
  • 31. Test: Complex palettes
  • 32. Summary of “Flexbox, Part 1”
The align-self property, or selfish alignment
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The align-items: baseline property

Another value of the align-items property is baseline. If you assign it to the container, then the flex items will be aligned along the text baseline in them. This imaginary line runs along the base of the letters.

If you align the flex items along the baseline, they will line up so that the text in them will be set so that it appears to run along a “single line”.

In order to better understand the behavior of the baseline, let’s compare it with another value, flex-start.

Mini Summary. The align-items property controls the alignment of items along the cross axis, and it has five values:

  • The default value stretch,

  • flex-start,

  • flex-end,

  • center,

  • and baseline.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Baseline alignment</title> <link href="course.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="house"> <div class="room room-1"> <div class="rug text-rudolf"> <p>Rudolf</p> </div> <div class="rug text-muffin"> <p>Muffin</p> </div> <div class="rug text-simba"> <p>Simba</p> </div> </div> <div class="room room-2"> <div class="rug text-rudolf"> <p>Rudolf</p> </div> <div class="rug text-muffin"> <p>Muffin</p> </div> <div class="rug text-simba"> <p>Simba</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>
CSS
.room { display: flex; height: 150px; justify-content: center; } .room-1 { align-items: center; } .room-2 { align-items: center; } .rug { min-height: auto; } .rug p { margin: 30px 0; text-align: center; background-color: rgba(69, 185, 244, 0.25); }

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    1. Set the flex items to be aligned at the start of the cross axis for the .room-1 block,
    2. and set alignment along the text baseline for the .room-2 block.

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