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Working with flex items

Working with flex items

- [Instructor] Flexbox is described as a one-dimensional layout method, because it aligns items on a single axis in either rows or columns. The flex direction property defines the direction of the main axis and how flex items are arranged in the flex container. The style is applied to the flex container and has a default value of row. When flex direction is set to row, the main start and main end, follow the document's writing mode. Left to right languages start on the left, and right to left languages start on the right. Flex direction can also be set to column, changing the main axis to run from top to bottom. The flex items also expand to fill the container width. The flex-wrap property is used to determine if flex items will display on a single line or wrap onto multiple lines. The default value is nowrap, meaning flex items will always be displayed on a single line. The value of wrap allows flex items to…

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