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The heading with description in flexboxes
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  • 1. Flex items and the block model
  • 2. Features of the margin property
  • 3. Alignment and margins
  • 4. The flow direction of the main axis and margins
  • 5. The initial main size of flex item, flex-basis
  • 6. Test: Cubism
  • 7. The item growth factor, flex-grow
  • 8. Growing items proportionally
  • 9. Calculating the total size with flex-grow
  • 10. The item shrinkage factor, flex-shrink
  • 11. Shrinking items proportionally
  • 12. Calculating the total size with flex-shrink
  • 13. flex-shrink and min-width
  • 14. Test: Mastering factors
  • 15. The flex shorthand property
  • 16. Multi-line flex containers and flex-shrink
  • 17. Multi-line flex containers and flex-grow
  • 18. flex-basis: 100% and flex-wrap
  • 19. The heading with description in flexboxes
  • 20. Heading with description, part 2
  • 21. Flexible menu with overflowing content
  • 22. Flexible menu with overflow, part 2
  • 23. Input fields with dynamic width
  • 24. The course card
  • 25. Course card, part 2
  • 26. Course card, part 3
  • 27. So many cards
  • 28. Test: Flexible flows
Flexible menu with overflowing content
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Heading with description, part 2

Now let’s check how our layout works if we add a bit more text.

If the content overflows, configure the container to overflow the flex items onto a new line.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Heading with description, part 2</title> <link href="course.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="subtle"> <section class="card"> <h1 class="card-title"> <span class="card-title-main">Muffin against flexboxes</span> <span class="card-title-note">A coming-of-age story</span> </h1> <p>Over the course of his long career as a front-end web developer, Muffin has seen a lot of confusing solutions…</p> </section> <section class="card"> <h1 class="card-title"> <span class="card-title-main">Muffin loves flexboxes</span> <span class="card-title-note">A success story</span> </h1> <p>It has been hard-going learning all of the ins and outs of flexboxes, but look at the new capabilities that Muffin has access to thanks to this “flexible” layout…</p> </section> </body> </html>
CSS
.card { margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.3; } .card-title { display: flex; align-items: flex-end; margin-top: 0; } .card-title span { border: 1px solid #999999; background-color: #c8dcff; } .card-title-main { flex-grow: 1; }

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    1. Replace the text Muffin loves flexboxes with Instructor Muffin and the amazing flexbox,
    2. and then configure flex items to overflow onto a new line for the .card-title block.
    3. Remove the frame and background color from the .card-title child spans.

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