What Is Display Flex?

A flex container expands items to fill available free space or shrinks them to prevent overflow. Most importantly, the flexbox layout is direction-agnostic as opposed to the regular layouts (block which is vertically-based and inline which is horizontally-based).

Should I use display flex?

You should consider using Flexbox when:

You need a content-first design — Flexbox is the ideal layout system to create web pages if you don't know exactly how your content is going to look, so if you want everything just to fit in, Flexbox is perfect for that.

What is flex in screen?

In simple terms, a flex screen is an advanced interface for data entry and retrieval. They're designed to replace hard-coded search screens. ... You can input and edit data. And you can do it all—the entire inquiry process— without going anywhere else in the system.