Styling with flexbox

by Richard Hunter

HTML

<div class="block-container bar">
  <div class="inline-container">
    <input class="component" placeholder="hello rich" type="text" />
    <button class="component">press</button>
  </div>
  <div class="block-container foo">
    <p class="component">
      Inline containers have no padding and have flex-direction set to <b>row</b>. Block containers have half-unit padding and a flex-direction of <b>column</b></p>
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.block-container {
  padding: 4px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

.inline-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: center;
}

.component {
  margin: 4px;
}

.bar {
  border: solid 2px lightgray;
  color: #666;
  font-family: helvetica;
}

input {
  border: 2px solid lightgray;
  padding: 8px;
  outline: none;
  line-height: 24px;
  font-size: 14px;
  flex-grow: 1;
}

input[type=text]:focus {
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px cornflowerblue;
}

button {
  -webkit-appearance: hidden;
  border: solid 1px darkgray;
  padding: 4px 8px;
  line-height: 16px;
  font-size: 14px;
  border-radius: 4px;
}

button:focus {
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px cornflowerblue;
  outline: none;
}

.foo {
  margin: 4px;
  border: solid 2px lightgray;
}

p {
  line-height: 24px;
}