Flexbox is more complicated than you thought

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🎓 - I have a 4+ hour course that focuses only on understanding and using Flexbox: https://flexboxsimplified.com Article on CSS-Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/equal-columns-with-flexbox-its-more-complicated-than-you-might-think/ Flex is a little strange in how it works, and I only recently dove deep enough into it to really understand what was going on, so I figured I'd share my discoveries with you! 🔗 Links ✅ https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/0ebf3952425bd37cb884a1b17f61052a ✅ https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/f838f43ddef1862472f88b75e3ccd013 ✅ https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/a9968ef9abfea662b428caf37fa7bca9 ✅ https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/OJpvpbv ✅ https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/qBrorpq ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 02:15 - How flexbox calculates the size of elements 06:10 - How flex-shrink calculates how much to shrink by 11:24 - How flex-grow calculates the size to grow by 12:00 - What flex: 1 actually does 13:09 - Why flex: 1 on all the flex items doesn't make even columns all the time 16:16 - Why flex-basis: 100% doesn't have the same result as flex: 1 17:23 - My new preferred solution 20:00 - A solution using flexbox 21:26 - Flexbox vs Grid #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my

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