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Posted by Joseph Szoke
Joseph Szoke
15,087 Points

When to use flex box?

Just looking for some opinions!

I just build my first site which is my portfolio using good ol margins and padding. I did this just to learn margins and padding better.

When should I use grid? Or flexbox? When it comes to building a page layout? Or should I always be using grid or flexbox?

I understand vendor support usually is the problem with flexbox but can be battled with scss.

Any insight would be great!

Thanks, Joe

1 Answer

Kay Ouchida
Kay Ouchida
10,480 Points

Personally I think the Flexbox layout mode is very important to use when building a website. The use of different screen sizes in today's world is vast and developers are moving in the direction of making most sites all device friendly for maximum accessibility. Personally I've been learning a great deal about flexbox here: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Joseph Szoke
Joseph Szoke
15,087 Points

Kay,

Thanks so much for the response. I guess I was wondering if everyone mostly uses flexbox for layout.

CSS-tricks is a great site, they explains things very well.

Joe