From the course: Making Sense of the CSS Box Model

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Flex in depth

Flex in depth - CSS Tutorial

From the course: Making Sense of the CSS Box Model

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Flex in depth

- [Instructor] Flex is an advanced layout module and we have entire courses dedicated to showing you how to use it in-depth. Even so, I want to show you some key features and browser tools, which will help you explore the Flex Module and how it relates to the box model. As of this recording, Firefox has the best developer tools to visualize and work with both Flex and Grid, so, that's the browser I'll be using. When you encounter a flex container, like the navigation menu up here or the three cards below, you'll notice it's highlighted as a flex container in the HTML Inspector and in the CSS Inspector and under the layout panel, you'll find flex container is populated, any time you select a flex container, from here you can activate a visual indicator, either by clicking the toggle under the layout or just by clicking on the flex identifier in the HTML Inspector and what you get is a visualization of the box model…

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