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In this lesson, we will explore CSS Flexbox, a powerful layout mechanism for creating flexible and responsive web designs.

CSS Flexbox provides an efficient way to organize and align elements within a container. It allows you to easily arrange elements horizontally or vertically, control their size and order, and handle complex layout scenarios.

Flexbox is particularly useful for:

  • Creating responsive designs that adapt to different screen sizes
  • Building flexible and dynamic layouts that adjust to content changes
  • Implementing complex alignment and positioning

Let's take a look at an example:

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1<div id="container"></div>
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1#container {
2  display: flex;
3  justify-content: center;
4  align-items: center;
5}
6
7.flex-item {
8  margin: 10px;
9  padding: 20px;
10  background-color: lightblue;
11}

In this example, we have a container element with an id of "container". We set its display property to flex, which turns it into a flex container. The flex items are created dynamically using JavaScript and appended to the container.

To better understand how Flexbox works, you can modify the CSS properties such as "justify-content", "align-items", and the flex container's direction to see how it affects the positioning and alignment of the flex items.

Here's some example code to get you started:

JAVASCRIPT
1// Define a flex container
2const container = document.getElementById('container');
3
4// Set the display property of the container to flex
5container.style.display = 'flex';
6
7// Add flex items
8for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
9  const item = document.createElement('div');
10  item.innerText = `Item ${i + 1}`;
11  container.appendChild(item);
12  item.classList.add('flex-item');
13}

This code creates a flex container and adds four flex items with the class "flex-item". You can customize the flex container and flex items' styles to achieve the desired layout.

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