Otter@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agoCSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024build-your-own.orgexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down10
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minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·5 months agoIs it just me or is the irony lost on the author? It says “align-content: center” but it’s only vertically aligned…
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoThat’s because under flexbox for horizontal alignment you use a different property called justify-content.
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoRight, which isn’t confusing at all /s
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months 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-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoBecause we already have a way to center text horizontally…
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 months 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-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months 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