Help with a flexbox item that is not aligning.

[sdetweil]

@bobbylx
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flexbox alignment styles

[bobbylx]

@sdetweil I’ve gone through a plethora of pages regarding Flexbox. What I am failing to understand, and probably in part due to my limited coding experience, is why only that single item of the 4 is not cooperating.
The way I understand is I have the flex container, which in this case is the top_bar? Then I have items within the container. My flex items would be the .clock, .weather, .weather and .MMM-MoonPhase. So should I be using a word other than .MMM-MoonPhase when adjusting the flex box position? Such as, in the example below, should .MMM-MoonPhase be replaced with another code that will then apply to the moon phase? This is where it gets muddy for me. And I know the second MMM-MoonPhase down there by itself is redundant, I was just testing.

.clock, .weather, .MMM-MoonPhase {
	display: inline-flex;
	justify-content: space-around;
        align-items: flex-start;
        margin-right: 25px;
	margin-left: 25px;
        background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255,0.6);    
        width: 300px;
        height: 180px;
	border-radius:20px;
        padding: 8px;
        color: #616161;
      	}
.MMM-MoonPhase {
	background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
	width: 250px;
	height: 180px;
	border-radius:20px;
        padding: 8px;
        color: #616161;
}

So if bring up the developers window, and change the inline-flex, align-items, they all 4 move around, just that single Moonphase is slight off from the others.

Honestly, I’ve been tweaking and editing this thing for a good year or so, I might be better off making a backup of some stuff and starting fresh.

[sdetweil]

@bobbylx when you are trying to do left right alignment you need to move the dev window to a different edge, else the content wraps, oops

this us called docking the dev window,
you can dock it on the bottom edge, top right of the dev window is the menu (3 dots)

[sdetweil]

@bobbylx flex means slides

what are the rules for the flexbox?

when an item is in s flexbox its position is relative to the flex box position on the screen

flex-end puts me at the end of the flex, flex-center is center, flex-start is at the beginning, youmight need self-align, then x,y
relative to the flex box area

x:50% starts your left edge at the middle

looks like moonphase set its own padding

[bobbylx]

Thanks for the info.

As for my horizontal alignment, I’ve got those where I like, and yeah I was aware of the content wrap. I have ssh session and a remote desktop over to my Pi box, so whenever I make a change I restart the process, which closes the developer box. I only open it to check things, but I’m not doing configurations based on the wrapped content when the box is present.

I’ll probably just remove that moonphase anyway, heck, I just need to look out the window.

[sdetweil]

@bobbylx I did this

.region.bar.top .container {
        display: inline-flex !important;
        flex-direction: row;
}
.clock, .weather , .MMM-MoonPhase {
        margin-right: 25px;
        margin-left: 25px;
        background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255,0.6);
        width: 300px;
        height: 180px;
        border-radius:20px;
        padding: 8px;
}     

and got this

[bobbylx]

@sdetweil You sir are a saint. That’s exactly what I was missing, I suspected I needed to separate the individual items from the flexbox, but lacked the knowledge to do it! Thank you!

[sdetweil]

@bobbylx it took me a few(hundred) tries too…

[jakabasej4]

@bobbylx said in Help with a flexbox item that is not aligning.:

@sdetweil You sir are a saint. https://eldfall-chronicles.com/en-si/collections/wargame-miniatures That’s exactly what I was missing, I suspected I needed to separate the individual items from the flexbox, but lacked the knowledge to do it! Thank you!

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