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Published inAug 2016
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Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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Ordering your Flexbox


Flexbox is a really powerful module as it comes with several properties that you can customize. Let's quickly go over some more basics before we fully take the plunge and use Flexbox in Bootstrap. Let's start by talking about the order of child boxes. By default, they will appear in the order that you insert them in the HTML file. Consider the following code:

<div class="parent"> 
   <div class="child"> 
   1 
   </div> 
   <div class="child"> 
   2 
   </div> 
   <div class="child"> 
   3 
   </div> 
</div> 

A proper CSS will produce a layout that looks like this:

Here's the CSS to produce this layout if you are following along at home:

.parent { 
  display: flex; 
  background: #ccc; 
  padding: 10px; 
  font-family: helvetica; 
} 
 
.child { 
  padding: 10px; 
  margin: 10px; 
  background: #fff; 
  flex-grow...
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Matt Lambert

Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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