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		Mikhail_Edoshin on July 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How well do you know CSS display? It's amazing that TeX has basically boxes, glue, and two kinds of lists (vertical and horizontal) and does wonders. CSS, on the other hand...

nostrademons on July 6, 2016 | [–]

Flexbox is basically boxes, glue, and two kinds of lists (vertical and horizontal). You can pretty much do all layout in flexbox these days, and all the other display properties are just for legacy compatibility.

undergrowth54 on July 6, 2016 | [–]

And it has error messages. Incomprehensible ones, but at least they exist!

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