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Submitted 6 months ago

Social links profile using Flexbox gap

thetinyelephant85•70
@thetinyelephant85
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  • HTML
  • CSS
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What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I was able to create the html structure and style very quickly. I spent too much time getting the right spacing among the elements as I did not calculate the gap properly.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

I could not find the right spacing immediately and I spent a lot of time adjusting the gap and padding. Jumping in Figma and inspect the right spacing helped me finalizing the page

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

For sure I would like to improve the use of rem instead of pixel, not just for font-size but for spacing as well. Accessibility and a stronger semantic html will be my next iteration.

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  • Koda👹•3,830
    @kodan96Posted 6 months ago

    hi there! 👋

    You should avoid hard-coded values (pixels) most of the time. When you use these values you give up responsiveness(or you make it harder for yourself at least)..

    Typically you will increase the font-size property with @media queries. If you have hard-coded values all over your CSS, you need to modify every element's font-size . On the other hand, if you use rem -s all you need to do is changing the font-size in your CSS :root selector and all your elements will have a new size based on that value.

    I usually use em for padding and margin for text-based elements, since their margin usually based on their font-size , and again, when you change the font-size in :root these values will scale up as well without you touching them, making your job easier and your page maintainable.

    If you are not familiar with the :root selector it's usually used to set custom properties(others call them CSS variables ) that you can apply later.

    Hope this was helpful 🙏

    Good luck and happy coding! 💪

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