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Mastering CSS
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Mastering CSS

by Rich Finelli
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
10h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using automatic margins

Something notable about flexbox is that it does a fresh take of the auto keyword for margin. Automatic margins are now working very closely with flexbox. I can now target my button as the selector and give it margin-top of auto:

.columns {  display: flex;  justify-content: space-between;}.column {  flex-basis: 30%;  display: flex;}.column figure {  max-width: 50%;}.column .button { margin-top: auto;}

Boom! The space above the button is now automatically calculated, and the button is positioned at the bottom of each column:

This also works when flex-direction is row; you can use margin-left: auto; or margin-right: auto to ...

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