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Jaime Rios
Courses Plus Student 21,100 PointsShould I take the time to learn flexbox?
Since it is not supported from most browsers should I take the time to master it? Consider that I just started learning web design this month.
3 Answers
Jason Desiderio
21,811 PointsYes, I'd highly recommend learning it. It gives you the most control over the elements on your page. It's actually supported in all modern browsers and will continue to be supported in the ones yet to come, which is shown here: http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
Here is an incredibly handy cheatsheet which I use on a daily basis: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Colin Marshall
32,861 PointsFlexbox is supported by the majority of modern browsers. You can see which browsers support Flexbox here: http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
Should you learn it? Definitely! I think it will be the future of responsive design, as more and more older browsers are phased out of use.
That being said, you should be cautious when using it at this point in time. Make sure you use fallbacks. Here is a good tutorial on the fallbacks: Cross-Browser Flexbox Solution with Float Fallback for Older IE.
jason chan
31,008 PointsYes learn everything. Get your hands dirty as much as possible. In programming you have to learn how to apply all the languages and make into one single entity.