Articles tagged with Flexbox

I’ve been playing with flexbox for a while. I love it. It’s going to save so many kittens. This is going to be the first of a series of demos of what flexbox is capable of.

Most grids and front-end frameworks insist on floats for layouting. You're occasionally better off with inline-block, rarely display-table, and if your browser support is ideal, flexbox. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various layouting methods.

I’m using flexbox in a big way for a web app that I’m currently working on, and I am very pleased with how it handles layout and box calculations intelligently. Small modules work very well with flexbox, and you can use floats and other tools for broader sections of the layout.
Published in Smashing Magazine, March 2015.