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Lu Favela
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Lu Favela
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Flexbox "flex-basis"

Can someone help me understand better of this concept. I understand how " flex-grow" works, but when using the flex short hand property, I simply don't understand how "flex-basis" works.

Thanks.

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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Flex-basis sets the initial width of the flex-items. It overrides the width property if set. When the flex-container is resized, the flex items will wrap when they are no longer the size of the desired flex-basis (e.g. a 300px flex basis, the items will wrap to the next line when they are no longer that 300px size) providing that you have the flex-wrap property set to wrap as well. So to summarize, the flex-basis property sets the initial width of the flex-items of a flex-container.