Stop using CSS grids, use Flexbox!
I bet you didn't see this one coming, ha!
Indeed, Flexbox is one amazing CSS property that opens the layout possibilities to new horizons. Here are a few things about Flexbox:
- Its browser support is perfect in modern browsers.
- IE8 and IE9 don't support it. But no worries, addressing these two browsers is very simple using the conditional classes technique mentioned in Chapter 3, Mobile-first or Desktop-first?
- IE10 only supports the 2012 syntax, but Autoprefixer (within Prepros) takes care of this old vendor prefixing automatically for us.
- We need to be careful when using Flexbox because the old
display: box;syntax causes the browser to do a multi-pass in the layout, deteriorating the performance. - In contrast, the ...
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