Flexbox, Grid, & Bootstrap
In this class you’ll learn how to use flexbox and grid to layout, align, and reorder webpage content, as well as make it adapt to different size screens
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In this class you’ll learn how to use flexbox and grid to layout, align, and reorder webpage content, as well as make it adapt to different size screens
Jul 25–26
Monday to Tuesday, 10–5pm
12 Hours
NYC or Live Online
CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid are two powerful ways to layout content in a webpage. Flexbox and grid are newer CSS layout technologies aimed at making it easier to create responsive layouts that are optimized for any size screen.
You’ll learn how both techniques are useful, and when to use each. You’ll also learn how to use Bootstrap (which uses Flexbox) to rapidly code up pages without having to write as much CSS.
If you’ve been coding CSS but don’t know flexbox and grid yet, it’s time to learn them! They enable you to create layouts that were either impossible to build previously, or they empower you to build layouts more faster and more easily than before.
Prerequisite: HTML & CSS coding experience equivalent to our Web Development Level 2 class.
Students should feel comfortable coding HTML and CSS. You should have knowledge equivalent to our Web Development Level 2 class.
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Flexbox, Grid + Bootstrap was another perspective on how to create structure and simplify certain aspects of web design. David is a thoughtful and thorough instructor. It is always challenging learning new things and taking classes at Noble Desktop makes it a fun experience! Highly recommend!
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This class is a MUST! Dan makes the content easy to understand and applicable to real life work scenarios. So happy I took this class at Noble Desktop.
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What are Flexbox & Grid? Flexbox and grid are new CSS layout techniques. Flexbox and grid are different approaches to laying out content and can be used together. While grid is newer, it does not replace flexbox. There are scenarios in which you could use both, so both are useful to know.
On the CSS Tricks article What’s the Difference Between Flexbox and Grid? Beverly @aszenitha commented “Use grid when you already have the layout structure in mind, and flex when you just want everything to fit. Layout first vs content first.”
Let’s look at what each of these three things is, when to use them, and how they relate to each other.
CSS flexbox is primarily used when laying out webpage content in one direction (row or column). We say primarily because flexbox content can wrap, which would create multiple rows and columns. Its focus is not on creating a full grid though, as CSS grid does.
We use flexbox to size, align, and distribute content in a direction (row or column). In a world of various sized devices, the flexibility of flexbox enables us to size content for different size screens, to change from a column direction on mobile to a row direction on desktop, and to even reorder content differently on multiple screen sizes.
Grid is the first CSS technique that lets you define a grid of columns and rows onto which you place the content of your webpage. You can place the content into an area of the grid regardless of the HTML source order, and the grid can be completely different on various screens sizes! This enables you to build responsive webpages that adapt to screen size in a much better (and easier) way than we could previously. Reordering content according to screen size is much easier with grid.
If you’re new to coding you may not appreciate just how revolutionary grid is and why web developers are so excited about it. Compared to the ways we previously coded webpage layouts, grid changes everything. It works very differently than CSS floats, display as inline, and tables (from the early days of the web), etc. It gives us the ability to create more interesting and attractive layouts, with less code that’s more intuitive to work with.
Bootstrap is a popular front-end component library. It’s a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that lets you layout out webpages (using their grid of rows and columns) and add components (navbars, carousels, buttons, and more) using only HTML. You can add your own CSS to customize the appearance, or you can use Bootstrap’s stock appearance.
Flexbox and grid are CSS, which is understood natively by web browsers. Bootstrap is a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code that is stored in files which your webpage must load. This does add extra download time, so if you can write your own code instead of using Bootstrap, it will result in a smaller, faster loading webpage. So why do people use Bootstrap? Depending on what you’re doing, it may be faster to develop with Bootstrap because the code’s already been written. As with anything, there are tradeoffs in developer time and performance. Bootstrap can be faster and easy to work with because you don't have to know CSS as well. Even if you're a CSS expert, it may be faster to build something with Bootstrap.
Behind the scenes, Bootstrap 4 is based on Flexbox. If you’re used Bootstrap 3, version 4 made some fairly major changes to the way it works. It’s not a drop-in replacement and you will need to understand how flexbox works to fully understand and utilize Bootstrap 4.
CSS flexbox and grid are making it easier for developers to create layouts quickly. That means some developer will use flexbox and grid instead of Bootstrap. Other developers (especially back-end) are not as good with CSS and will, therefore, continue to choose Bootstrap because it’s quick and easy to use. You will likely encounter sites built with Bootstrap (especially many WordPress themes), so Bootstrap is a useful thing to know and include on your resume.
If you already know some HTML and CSS, but have not learned Flexbox and Grid yet, this class is perfect to get you up and running quickly.
If you’re just getting started coding webpages, this class is part of the core web curriculum of our web development certificates. That means you’ll learn these concepts in each of these certificate programs:
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