Flexbox

Easily generate flexbox layouts that support both new and legacy formats.

• Requires Compass
• Requires Modernizr (for flexbox and flexboxlegacy feature detection)

Flexbox layouts consist of two main components: containers and children. In order to create a flexbox layout, you must first declare a container. Given the following HTML:

<div class="container">
  <div class="child">Content!</div>
  <div class="child">Content!</div>
  <div class="child">Content!</div>
  <div class="child">Content!</div>
</div>

you can turn this into a flexbox layout using this mixin like so:

.container {
  @include flexcontainer;
}
//direct children become flex items by default, use this only if values are different than defaults
.child {
  @include flexchild(...);
}

The mixin takes named arguments, so you can customize your layouts however you need:

.container {
  @include flexcontainer($flexdirection: column, $alignitems: flex-start);
}
.child {
  @include flexchild;
  &:nth-child(1) {
    @include flexprop(flex-basis, 200px); //helper mixin for single properties
  }
}

Let this mixin do all the hard work of remembering which IE properties and values translate into which standards-based property and what legacy property maps to which new properties!