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A comment on Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends. Parent comment

Re:Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends by joshribakoff on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:54PM (#15638480)
Your margin scenario is exactly what css grid handles nicely (grid gutters)
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Re:Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends by c-smile on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:06PM (#15638593)
Yes but flex units can be used not just in grid context.

Consider this:

   <p>Foo <input style="width:1fr /> bar.</p>
That <input> will span free space left in the p element from "Foo " and " bar."
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