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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition
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Modern CSS with Tailwind, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
104 pages
2h 24m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Box Alignment

In addition to using flexbox to place items on the page, Tailwind includes utilities that allow you to be more specific about the alignment and justification of elements within the flexbox. These utilities also work for grid layouts, where appropriate.

I talked about how a flexbox container has a main axis and a cross axis. The Tailwind utilities that affect placement along the main axis all start with justify-, and utilities that affect placement across the cross axis don’t. These names are chosen to match the names of the underlying CSS properties.

Main Axis

Let’s look at the main axis first. Item placement can be specified along the main axis in two ways: placement of the item along the main axis of the entire flexbox, and placement ...

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