- I have a 4+ hour course that focuses only on understanding and using Flexbox: https://flexboxsimplified.com

Article on CSS-Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/equal-columns-with-flexbox-its-more-complicated-than-you-might-think/

Flex is a little strange in how it works, and I only recently dove deep enough into it to really understand what was going on, so I figured I'd share my discoveries with you!

Links
https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/0ebf3952425bd37cb884a1b17f61052a
https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/f838f43ddef1862472f88b75e3ccd013
https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/a9968ef9abfea662b428caf37fa7bca9
https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/OJpvpbv
https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/qBrorpq

Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
02:15 - How flexbox calculates the size of elements
06:10 - How flex-shrink calculates how much to shrink by
11:24 - How flex-grow calculates the size to grow by
12:00 - What flex: 1 actually does
13:09 - Why flex: 1 on all the flex items doesn't make even columns all the time
16:16 - Why flex-basis: 100% doesn't have the same result as flex: 1
17:23 - My new preferred solution
20:00 - A solution using flexbox
21:26 - Flexbox vs Grid

#css

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