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Solution retrospective
I am proud of the fact that I was able to create my first html,css challenge by taking a little help from mdn and css-tricks, next time I will try to complete it without any online help.
What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?I encounter the challenge of flex box property. When I made the body a flex and set justify-contents to center the 'attribution' div was in row with the card to i added flex-direction: column to make it go below the card but by doing so the justify-contents: center no longer worked, then i tried align-contents: center it still didn't work. Finally when i changed it to align-items: center the card was in the center of the screen.
What specific areas of your project would you like help with?code 1:
body{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
}
code 2:
body{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-content: center;
}
code 3:
body{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
I want to know why code 1 and code 2 were not able to center the body while code 3 does it.
Community feedback
- @KapteynUniversePosted 19 days ago
When flex-direction is set to column,
align-items: center;
centers the content horizontally, andjustify-content: center;
centers it vertically. If flex-direction is row, it works the other way around.The problem you're facing is that the <body> element is only as tall as its content. That means you don't see the vertical centering visually but it works. To fix this, you need to set a height. Like you did here but instead of using margin-top, apply
min-height: 100vh;
.Also, avoid using percentage-based heights (especially with low values), as they often behave unpredictably.
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