Otter to ProgrammingEnglish • 24 days agoCSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024build-your-own.orgexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down14cross-posted to: webdev
arrow-up1330arrow-down1external-linkCSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024build-your-own.orgOtter to ProgrammingEnglish • 24 days agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: webdev
minus-square@refalolink48•24 days agoIs it just me or is the irony lost on the author? It says “align-content: center” but it’s only vertically aligned…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•24 days agoThat’s because under flexbox for horizontal alignment you use a different property called justify-content.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•23 days agoThere’s a learning curve but it makes sense once you’ve used it for a bit. I recommend the frog game: https://flexboxfroggy.com/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•23 days agoBecause we already have a way to center text horizontally…
minus-square@refalolink3•edit-223 days agoYes but my grief was with the naming… why not call it vertical-center? Just “center” is very confusing to me because it does not include horizontal.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•23 days agoBecause of consistency with the rest of the box model
Is it just me or is the irony lost on the author? It says “align-content: center” but it’s only vertically aligned…
That’s because under flexbox for horizontal alignment you use a different property called
justify-content.Right, which isn’t confusing at all /s
There’s a learning curve but it makes sense once you’ve used it for a bit. I recommend the frog game: https://flexboxfroggy.com/
Because we already have a way to center text horizontally…
Yes but my grief was with the naming… why not call it vertical-center? Just “center” is very confusing to me because it does not include horizontal.
Because of consistency with the rest of the box model