Flexbox
You have seen display
styles specifying the properties block
and inline
.
Inline elements, like the thumbnail items in your newly scrolling list, are laid out next to one another, while
block elements occupy their own horizontal line.
Another way to think of this is that block elements flow from top to bottom and inline elements flow from left to right (Figure 4.6).
Figure 4.6 Block vs inline elements
The display
property tells the browser how an element should flow
in the layout. For blogs or online encyclopedias, the inline
and block
values work well. But for application-style layouts like web-based email and ...
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