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Flex Layout Template

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Introduction

\n This project is a template for creating a web page based on a wrapping\n flexbox layout. This technique is an easy way to make web pages that\n scale nicely to different screen sizes without having cluttered and\n complex CSS.\n

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Structure

\n In the HTML, notice that all of the main content is inside the flex-container div. This acts as the container for most or all\n content. Even headers, footers, and main logos can go into this\n container.\n

\n Inside the flex-container div are multiple flex-item\n divs. Each of these acts as a smaller container for one item on the\n page. An item can be a main image, navigation bar, photo with caption,\n chunk of text, etc. Think of an item as a block of the page that you\n want to keep together even if the overall layout changes.\n

\n The first div contains a navigation bar with links. This nav bar is structured as an unordered list, with each link being both a list item and a link with href.\n

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Styling

\n The key CSS statements for this page are split among the container, the items, and some custom rules for creating column widths.\n

\n In flexbox-container:\n

\n display: flex; to tell the browser to use flex layout rules\n
\n flex-wrap: wrap; to set the behavior that flex items will fill a row, then wrap to another row\n

In flexbox-item:

\n padding: 1em; for internal whitespacw in each flex-item box, with units relative to text size. \n
\n text-align: center; on headings. Other styles can be added to headings, paragraphs, images, as needed. \n
\n Custom utility classes to set column width. This page uses a 3-column layout, so there are three utility classes. For example:\n .one-third { flex: 33%;} to set the flex width of any item in this class to 33% of the screen width.\n

\n The page also makes use of CSS custom properties (usually called variables) to set an overall color scheme that can be easily edited.\n

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