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Flex related coding questions

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what is display: flex;

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display: flex; is a CSS property that is used to create a flexible layout. It turns an element into a flex container, allowing you to control the positioning and alignment of its child elements. With the display: flex; property, you can easily create responsive and dynamic layouts. You can learn more about display: flex; and how to use it in CSS on the following link: CSS Flexbox

👩‍💻 Technical question

making a vertical list horizontal

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To make a vertical list horizontal, you can use CSS display property and set it to flex. Here’s an example in CSS:

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ul { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; list-style: none; }

This code will make all ul lists display horizontally with equal space between the items. You can replace ul with any other selector if you want to target a different element or class.

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how can i make style a whole website to be centered and scaled in CSS?

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To center and scale an entire website in CSS, you can use the following CSS code:

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body { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; }

This code sets the margin and padding of the body element to 0 to remove any default styling. It then sets the height to 100% to make the body element take up the entire height of the viewport.

Finally, this code sets the display property to flex and uses align-items: center and justify-content: center to center the contents of the body element both vertically and horizontally.

Here is an example of how this would work in practice: https://codepen.io/shecodes/pen/wvoWHZW.

Hope this helps!

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how to put content into columns in html?

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To create columns in HTML, you can use a combination of HTML and CSS. One popular way to create columns is to use the CSS property display: flex on a parent element, and then set the child elements to have a width of a percentage (that adds up to 100%). Here's an example code snippet using HTML and CSS:

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<div class="columns"> <div class="column">Column 1 content goes here</div> <div class="column">Column 2 content goes here</div> <div class="column">Column 3 content goes here</div> </div>
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.columns { display: flex; } .column { width: 33%; }

In the above example, the div elements with class "column" will be displayed in a row because of the display: flex property on the parent div with class "columns". Each child div is given a width of 33%, which adds up to a total of 100% for the 3 columns. You can adjust the width percentages and add more or fewer columns as needed.

Here's a link to a more detailed guide on creating columns in HTML using CSS: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_two_columns.asp

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Asked almost 2 years ago in CSS by Narges🦁🌻

center align an image

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To center align an image, you can apply CSS text-align property to the container element and set its value to center. Here's an example for an HTML image tag:

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<div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="your-image.jpg" alt="Your Image"> </div>

You can also use CSS to center the image horizontally and vertically within the container element by setting the display property to flex and using the align-items and justify-content properties with the value of center. Here's an example:

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<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; height: 100vh;"> <img src="your-image.jpg" alt="Your Image"> </div>

This will center the image both horizontally and vertically within the container element.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Coding

how do you center vertically

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To center vertically, you can use the display and align-items properties in CSS. Here's an example:

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.container { display: flex; align-items: center; /* add height to the container to see vertical centering */ height: 200px; }

In this example, the .container element is a flex container, and the align-items property is set to center. This centers the child elements vertically within the container. You can adjust the height property of the container to see the effect more clearly.

Here's a link to more information on CSS Flexbox: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox.asp

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in Bootstrap by Peter-Ann

How do I make the cards in my code the same height using bootstrap

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You can use the Bootstrap card-deck class to make your cards the same height.

You can also use d-flex and align-items-stretch to make the cards the same height using Flexbox.

Here's an example using the card-deck class:

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<div class="card-deck"> <div class="card"> <h3>Card 1</h3> </div> <div class="card"> <h3>Card 2</h3> </div> <div class="card"> <h3>Card 3</h3> </div> <div class="card"> <h3>Card 4</h3> </div> </div>

Here's an example using Flexbox:

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.card-deck { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: stretch; } .card { flex: 1 0 auto; }

👩‍💻 HTML, CSS and JavaScript Code instructions

Move the following list into a layout of 4 columns 👉 Bootstrap Today Tomorrow Weekend Next week

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HTML:

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<div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3">Bootstrap</div> <div class="col-3">Today</div> <div class="col-3">Tomorrow</div> <div class="col-3">Weekend</div> <div class="col-3">Next week</div> </div> </div>

CSS:

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.container { width: 100%; } .row { display: flex; flex-direction: row; } .col-3 { width: 33.33%; border: 2px solid black; text-align: center; padding: 5px 0; margin: 5px 0; }

JavaScript:

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// No JavaScript is required to complete this task.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Fatima Zohra

CSS how to have three pictures on the same line

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In order to have three pictures on the same line using CSS, you can use the <div> HTML element and add the following inline styling:

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div { display: flex; flex-direction: row; }

Then, add the img HTML element inside the <div> tags.

For example:

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<div> <img src="pic1.jpg"> <img src="pic2.jpg"> <img src="pic3.jpg"> </div>

For more information about CSS Flexbox, see:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Riley

How can I get the columns to appear within the same row?

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If you're using HTML and CSS you will need to wrap the columns with a <div> tag and set the display property to flex.

This will ensure that the columns appear within the same row. An example is shown below:

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.wrapper { display: flex; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

how do i disable justify-content: center when using media queries

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First, set the flex container to have display: flex. Then, you can use the justify-content property to set the alignment of the flex items along the horizontal axis. To disable justify-content: center when using media queries, you should use the following code:

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@media (max-width: 600px) { .container { display: flex; justify-content: flex-start; /* Disable justify-content: center */ } }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Alice

How to center an image within a container

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Using the flex box model, you can center an image within a container by setting the container's display style to flex, the justify-content style to center and the align-items style to center:

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.container { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Carolina

Use display: flex again but now to divide the website in 3 vertical columns with the same size.

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With display: flex, you can divide the website in 3 vertical columns with the same size using a combination of flex-direction: row and flex: 1 on the child elements.

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.container { display: flex; flex-direction: row; } .column { flex: 1; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Sarah

How can I center a h2 vertically in the page

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To center an <h2> vertically in the page, you can wrap the <h2> element in an outer <div> and apply the following CSS:

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

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Makda

how to position vertical listed elements in the center of the head part in css

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To position vertical listed items in the center of the head part in CSS, you can use the flex property. Use the justify-content: center to vertically center the elements, along with the align-items: center if needed.

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header { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Kseniia

white responsive, flex nav with icons and logo css and html

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This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a responsive, flex-based navigation with logo & icons using HTML & CSS:

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<nav class="main"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"></a> </div> <ul class="navigation"> <li> <a href="/">Home</a> </li> <li> <a href="/about/">About</a> </li> <li> <a href="/contact/">Contact</a> </li> <li class="icon"> <a href="#" onclick="openNav()">&#9776;</a> </li> </ul> </nav>
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.main { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px; font-size: 16px; } .navigation { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: flex; align-items: center; } .navigation li { padding: 0 10px; } .icon { display: none; } @media (max-width: 768px) { .navigation { display: none; } .icon { display: inline-block; } }

Head over to our tutorial for the full explanation, code examples, and more: https://www.shecodes.io/tutorials/create-a-flex-based-navigation-with-logo-icons-using-html-css

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Wu-chiao

how to create 2 same size text blocks in html or css

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In HTML, you can use the <div> element. For example:

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<!-- HTML example --> <div> <p>Hello world</p> <p>Hello world</p> </div>

In CSS, you can create two side-by-side blocks using the display: flex; property. For example:

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/* CSS example */ div { display: flex; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

how to center horizontally ul

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To horizontally center an unordered list you can use the following code snippet:

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ul { display: flex; justify-content: center; }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Ashley

how to make columns in html

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Answered in 12.57 seconds

In HTML, you can create columns using the <div> element, setting the widths of each column with the style attribute and the width property. Additionally, you can use the display property and specify a value of flex, inline-flex, or grid. Here is an example of creating two columns with the flex display property:

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<div style="display: flex;"> <div style="flex: 1;"> First column content goes here </div> <div style="flex: 1;"> Second column content goes here </div> </div>

Additionally, if you are looking for a more accessible and semantic approach to creating columns, you can use <table>, <thead>, and <tbody> elements with the colspan attribute. For more information on creating tables in HTML, you can read this article from w3schools.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Mariana

how to place these videos in one line in the html file, instead of vertically?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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You can use the CSS display: flex property to display elements in a single row. You can read more about the flex property here.

Here's a basic example of how it could work:

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.videos { display: flex; }

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