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CSS Flexbox Layout

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Wrapping Flex Items

2:33 with Guil Hernandez

The flex container can break flex items onto multiple lines and allow them to wrap as needed. With the flex-wrap property, you can control whether the flex container is a single-line or multi-line layout.

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  • The flex-wrap property is for flex containers only.
  • The flex container lays out flex items on a single line called a flex line.
  • The flex container tries to fit all items on one flex line, even if causes its contents to overflow.
  • The flex container can break flex items into multiple flex lines and allow them to wrap as needed.
  • With the flex-wrap property, you can control whether the flex container is a single-line or multi-line layout.
  • The value wrap breaks the flex items into multiple lines.

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    The flex container tries to fit all items on one flex line 0:00
    even if it causes its contents to overflow. 0:01
    In the work space preview, when I re-size the browser and the flex container starts 0:05
    to get narrower, the flex items overflow the boundaries of the flex container. 0:09
    But the flex container can break items onto multiple flex lines and 0:16
    allow them to wrap as needed like this. 0:20
    With the flex-wrap property, 0:24
    you can control whether the flex container is a single line or multi-line layout. 0:26

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