

And before you face palm 🤦‍♀️, thinking it will be a long read. If this is confusing to you, please do check out my free course. But when you have multiple elements, then you will notice some different effects. My examples have been a single element, so it doesn't matter. Where justify-content and align-items are parent properties - so it will affect all enclosing children. That's because margin is used to control a specific child element. You might have noticed, I applied margin to the child element. The align-self-# classes will give column a height of auto and align it.To learn more about how margin works with Flexbox, you can read the lesson from my free Flexbox30 course, Flexbox: Aligning with Auto Margins # Margin vs Flex Parent Properties Vertically aligning individual columns in a row You can align individual columns in a row instead. But sometimes we need to vertically align just one column in a row. No more fussing with fixed heights, position absolute, or transforms. row to automagically vertically align the columns in the row. Vertically align! Vertically align all the columns inside the rowĪdd the. small-4) and will be the height of the tallest column. So if you have a setup like this:Īll your columns inside this row will take up equal width (unless we attach a sizing class like.

This is really nice for card type layouts. Foundation has an Equalizer component to do this, which you don’t need with Flexbox.

The first, and really slick thing about the Flexbox is that the children of an element with the display: flex all share the same height.

Sometimes CSS is a bit wonky.įortunately, we have Flexbox at our disposal. You may ask, why not use vertical-align:middle? Well that doesn’t work the way you’d expect either.
