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The vertical row of icons, part 2
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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
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  • 12. Test: Creating a simple palette
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  • 14. The flex-wrap property, reverse overflow
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  • 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”
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The vertical row of icons, part 3

Now, if you change the height of the section flex item, then the height of the aside item will also change. And since the aside is itself a flex container, then any change to its height will redistribute its child flex items, which contain the links with icons.

It turns out that the icons will always be distributed by the height of the contents of the section block.

Let’s check this by adding some more text to the block.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The vertical row of icons, part 3</title> <link href="course.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="subtle"> <div class="post"> <section> <h1>A Day in the Life of a Cat</h1> <p>Muffin woke on up in his cat bed very early that morning. The day promised to be eventful.</p> <p>Due to this, he decided to work out on his chin-up bar.</p> <p>The cat eventually tired himself out exercising, and he decided to relax a bit and watch TV.</p> <!-- <p>Having rested himself, the cat returned to his usual routine of causing disorder. However, he was caught.</p> <p>Having decided that he had achieved enough for today, Muffin went to bed with a clear conscience.</p> --> </section> <aside> <a href="#" class="soc-icon soc-icon-fb">fb</a> <a href="#" class="soc-icon soc-icon-tw">tw</a> <a href="#" class="soc-icon soc-icon-yo">yo</a> </aside> </div> </body> </html>
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.post { display: flex; } .post aside { display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: space-between; order: -1; margin-right: 20px; }

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