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Flexbox: Centering and Flex Items

Explore how to achieve perfect centering using Flexbox with justify-content and align-items set to center. Learn to manage flex items using properties such as order, flex-grow, flex-shrink, flex-basis, align-self, and the shorthand flex property. This lesson helps you control layout order, sizing, and alignment of child elements in a flex container for responsive web design.

How to achieve perfect centering

Achieving perfect centering is quite simple with Flexbox! We simply need to ensure that both the justify-content and align-items properties are set to the center value:

Child elements (flex items)

Let’s take a look at the set of properties we can apply to child elements. These are our flex items. Any direct child elements of a flex container automatically become flex items.

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