Chapter 11
Specialty Page Layouts with Flexbox
As you might guess from the name, CSS flexbox is a flexible box model for laying out content on the Web. Flexbox, which is a relatively new addition to CSS, makes it possible to style sections of a website to allow child elements to fully fill a container, while also still being able to adapt to the content—a combination that was often difficult to do in the pre-flexbox era.
For example, suppose we had three columns with different amounts of content inside, and we wanted the columns all to be the same height as the longest one. A diagram of this scenario for three columns without flexbox appears in Figure 11.1.
Figure 11.1: Columns with different lengths of content, and hence different heights. ...
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