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Perfect centering by assigning margin: auto to the flex container
Flexbox, part 122/32
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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 adaptive horizontal menu, part 1
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Perfect centering, flex alignment

Now let’s center the items using the flex container properties without margin: auto in the child elements.

Notice how items are distributed differently depending on the various values of the justify-content property.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Perfect centering, flex alignment</title> <link href="course.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="subtle"> <article class="item"> <h1>“Wolverine” Scratching Post</h1> <div class="pictures"> <div class="picture"> <img src="img/toy.png" alt=""> </div> <div class="picture"> <img src="img/toy.png" alt=""> </div> </div> <div class="controls"> <a href="/">Buy</a> </div> </article> </body> </html>
CSS
.pictures { display: flex; } .picture { margin: auto; }

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    1. Remove margin: auto from the .picture blocks,
    2. then set flex items to be distributed along the center of the main axis for the .pictures block,
    3. and center-align the cross axis.
    4. Then substitute space-around for arrangement along the main axis.

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