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jason limmm
jason limmm
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Posted by jason limmm
jason limmm
8,009 Points

cannot move flex container down

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Math Exercise Menu</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/8.0.1/normalize.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="menustyles.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="selectbuttoncontainer" class="flex">
            <button id="easy">Easy</button>
            <button id="Medium">Medium</button>
            <button id="hard">Hard</button>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

.flex{
    display:flex;
}
#selectbuttoncontainer{
    border:solid black 10px;
    margin:auto 0;
    flex-direction: row;
}
#selectbuttoncontainer button{
    font-size: 8rem;
    width:500px;
    height:500px;
    margin:0 calc(105px/2);
}

i cannot seem to move the flex container down(#selectbuttoncontainer)

1 Answer

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Hey jason limmm

Using margin: auto to try and vertically align something is very strange and never really works out the way I want. The easiest way I know of is to target the container's parent element, body in this situation.

body {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

This sets the body as a flex container as well and will vertically align the child container since body is taking up 100% of the page's height 👍

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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If you're not trying to center it, and just move it down a little bit, I'd adjust the container's top margin to a fixed amount. For example

#selectbuttoncontainer{
    border: solid black 10px;
    margin-top: 100px;
    flex-direction: row;
}