Gain insights into designing mobile-responsive web layouts using Flexbox. Delve into Box Model basics, Flexbox containers, and item alignment, and apply your knowledge to create stunning, mobile-first websites.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience in designing mobile-responsive web layouts using Flexbox. You will start with the basics like the Box Model and the process of layouting.

You will then move on to advanced concepts such as Flexbox containers, and aligning individual Flexbox items. Near the end of the course, you will put everything you just learned into practice. You will work on a project that focuses on developing a mobile-first website where you’ll experiment with page layout, headers, footers, and a lot more.

By the end of this course, you will be able to use Flexbox in your own projects to create beautiful layouts.

Designing Web Layouts with CSS and Flexbox

# Creating a responsive layout

In the following exercise, you will create a responsive layout based on the mobile markup. Without changing anything in the HTML, use `order` to position your boxes properly.

<html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
   <header class="header">
     <nav class="header__menu item">Main Nav</nav>
     <h1 class="header__logo item">Logo</h1> 
   </header>
   <main class="main">
     <section class="main__cta">
        <div class="main__banner item">Banner</div>
        <div class="main__signup-text item">Signup Text</div> 
        <div class="main__signup-form item">Signup Form</div> 
     </section>
     <section class="main__blog">
         <div class="main-blog__thumbnail item">Blogpost 1</div>
         <div class="main-blog__thumbnail item">Blogpost 2</div>
         <div class="main-blog__thumbnail highlighted item">Blogpost 3</div>
         <div class="main-blog__thumbnail item">Blogpost 4</div>
     </section>
   </main>
   <footer class="footer item">Footer</footer>
 </body>
</html>

* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-size: 16px;
}
   
.header, .main, .main__cta, .main__blog {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;   
}

.header__menu {
    background-color: yellowgreen;
}

.header__logo {
    background-color: darkturquoise;
    font-size: 1.5rem;
}

.main__banner {
    background-color: blueviolet;
}

.main__signup-text {
    background-color: chocolate;
}

.main__signup-form {
    background-color: deeppink;  
}

.main-blog__thumbnail {
    background-color: lightgreen;
}

.main-blog__thumbnail.highlighted {
    background-color: yellow;
}

.footer {
    background-color: lightgrey;
}

.item {
    padding: 1rem;
    outline: 1px solid black;
}

codemirror

Create a responsive layout with a breakpoint at `768px` that looks like the following:

In this lesson, you will create a responsive layout using order.

Getting Started

Using Flexbox Containers

Aligning Individual Flexbox Items

Designing a Mobile-first Website Using Flexbox

Flexbox Conclusion and Next Steps

Order Exercise

Creating a responsive layout