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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 justify-content property: flex-start | flex-end
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The justify-content property, alignment along the main axis

Flexbox uses a property to arrange items along the main axis, justify-content, instead of simply assigning “horizontal” alignment. This property is assigned on the flex container.

Its default value is flex-start. When this value is assigned, the elements are located at the start of the main axis.

In order to arrange the items in the center of the main axis, you need to assign the value center for justify-content.

Let’s place the rugs in the center of the container room.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Flex items distribution, justify-content</title> <link href="course.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="house"> <div class="room"> <div class="rug rudolf"></div> <div class="rug muffin"></div> </div> </body> </html>
CSS
.room { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }

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